Getting Started?

blah569 · Post by **blah569** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:23 pm

I really want to start making an OS, I have some C++ Knowledge. What is the right kernel to download, and how can I start building my OS? I really don't know what else to say. Please help. Thanks.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:26 pm

http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Getting_Started

blah569 · Post by **blah569** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:29 pm

Zacariaz wrote:http://www.osdev.org/wiki/Getting_Started

I just read that before you posted it, and well, it doesn't have everything I need

.

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:36 pm

Ok then, what do you need? We aren't psychic.

blah569 · Post by **blah569** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:58 pm

Okay, well I just need to know the steps to get started, to building an OS.

Pyrofan1 · Post by **Pyrofan1** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:15 am

Here's the steps that I made my OS in
printing to screen
memory manager
GDT
IDT
IRQ
Timer (not really needed)
Keyboard

But, you can build your OS in almost any order.

blah569 · Post by **blah569** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:19 am

Pyrofan1 wrote:Here's the steps that I made my OS in
printing to screen
memory manager
GDT
IDT
IRQ
Timer (not really needed)
Keyboard

But, you can build your OS in almost any order.

Thanks, but I need to know the tools, the stuff I need to make an OS.

jhawthorn · Post by **jhawthorn** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:31 am

Please see "Choosing your development environment" in the wiki article.

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:55 am

Do you not know a feasible language? (like C/C++, pascal, assembly, ect.)

if you don;t know a language, I don't recommend learning it by writing an OS....I did that, and well..it took me a long time to really code properly..(and some still say my coding style is out-of-whack) plus you will not learn the C library very well in most cases..