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[ts-7000] Re: Now, how?

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Now, how?
From: "Blair" <>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:51:06 -0000
Creating the disk image isn't a big deal.  You just have to remember to mount 
it after a reboot or XCode will complain.  Personally I like the convenience of 
working in XCode.  I use Parallels only when I absolutely have to.  It's gotten 
so damn slow as to be nearly unusable.

You do have to do a couple of tricks in XCode (build rules and build phases) to 
get everything to work properly and make it use the right cross-tool 
executables.  I suppose I should delve deeper into the inner workings of XCode 
to integrate that better.  I know it's doable because Intel makes some 
high-performance compilers that work seamlessly in XCode.

But, IMHO, this is all one-time stuff.  The nuances of building a kernel are 
more inscrutable.  What version of GCC do you need?  What version of glibC do 
you need?  And so on.  Then, what version of the kernel works and why?  How do 
you know you need a later version?  And once you've built it, how do you test 
it to make sure everything works properly?  Too much guesswork, IMHO.  Too much 
digging on the web for little reward and far too many partial answers.  "How do 
you do X?"  "I did it and it worked for me."  "Uh yeah, thanks but HOW did you 
do it?"

> 
> The workaround is to create a case-sensitive filesystem on a disk image and 
> mount that.  I can't be bothered to do that, so I use Ubuntu 8.04 in a 
> Parallels Desktop virtual machine which allows me to use a prepackaged cross 
> compiler.
> 




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