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Building GRUB on a Windows system???
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:00 am
by Berry
Hello,
I wanna build GRUB but I have a Windows 98 system. I have DJGPP / NASM, but I don't know how to run the configure script... Typing ./configure doesn't work. Any help would be fantastic!!!
RE:Building GRUB on a Windows system???
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:00 am
by carbonBased
Grub was meant to be compiled in a unix-like environment... you'll either need to download autoconf and automake tools for DJGPP (if they even exist...?) or use CYGWIN or MING/W instead (I believe both environments offer the tools you'll require).
Cheers,
Jeff
RE:Building GRUB on a Windows system???
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:00 am
by Dangamoose
Or depending on where you want grub then you could grab a floppy disk image off the net with grub in the bootsector already compiled.
You can then write the image to a floppy disk physically, with winwrite for windows i think it is, or just use the img with your fav virtual machine.
Only works for floppies mind you, unless you find a hard disk disk image with grub on.
The Bona Fide OS development web site has one.
http://osdev.neopages.net/downloads.php
Dangamoose.
RE:Building GRUB on a Windows system???
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:00 am
by df
its not currently possible to build grub under cygwin, even with binutils --enable-targets=all... there is a bizarre LD error about absolutes or something.