Build It -- Downloading the Neutrino OS/Kernel Source#

Pre-requisites#

1. Momentics Development Environment installed for the build tools
2. Have the OS source available to your local machine.

Supported build environments include: Neutrino (x86 self-hosted), Windows, Linux and Solaris.

These instructions assume you have pulled the source down to a single directory that will serve as the build root (BUILD_ROOT):
% pwd
/home/somepath
% ls
trunk
% export BUILD_ROOT=/home/somepath

Build It#

1. Create a staging directory for installed binaries and headers to go
   % cd $BUILD_ROOT
   % mkdir stage
2. Configure the override makefile stub % cd $BUILD_ROOT
   % cat >qconf-override.mk
   USE_ROOT_nto=$BUILD_ROOT/stage
   INSTALL_ROOT_nto=$BUILD_ROOT/stage
   OSLIST=nto
   EXCLUDE_VARIANTLIST=wcc
   VERSION_REL=6.3.0
   ^D
3. Set the override environment variable to point at the makefile stub
   % export QCONF_OVERRIDE=$BUILD_ROOT/qconf-override.mk
4. Install all of the header files in the local stage
   % cd $BUILD_ROOT/trunk
   % make hinstall
   ... lots of output, including copying to $BUILD_ROOT/stage
5. Build the Neutrino OS binaries
   % cd $BUILD_ROOT/trunk
   % make install
   ... lots of build output, binaries copied to $BUILD_ROOT/stage

The final binaries (libraries, executables) that you have built should now be found in the $BUILD_ROOT/stage tree.

For a more detailed explanation of these build steps and what is going on, read @@@Understanding The Neutrino Build Process