What's your toolchain

[AaronMiller]

Hey, I'm just wondering what your toolchain might be. (OS, development tools/language, etc.)

Mine is Ubuntu Linux version 8.10,
GNU Compiler Collection,
NASM,
and some custom tools I made.

My kernel is being made in C, and x86 (intel-syntax) assembly.


NOTE: I wasn't sure where else to put this, sorry if it's in the wrong place.

Cheers,

-naota

[JackScott]

It's *probably* the right place for the topic. We'll see how the intelligence of the replies ranks...

I use a Debian Stable server with all the standard GNU tools: GCC v4.3.x, Binutils, Make, NASM, etc.
I remotely access files using ExpanDrive for Windows (my review here) and use Notepad2 and/or Visual Studio on my Vista laptop to do the editing.
I write my kernel in C, with both Intel and AT&T syntax assembly. At the moment I'm working on a lot of Java-based projects on my laptop, and for those I have NetBeans and the Sun JDK installed.

[Troy Martin]

For NASM only:

• Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
• always the latest NASM

For NASM and C:

• xubuntu 9.04 in the latest VirtualBox
• always the latest NASM
• always the latest GCC/binutils/build-essential

[earlz]

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[earlz@EarlzBeta-~] $ uname -a
OpenBSD earlzbeta.earlz-me.biz.tm 4.4 GENERIC.NTFS#0 i386
[earlz@EarlzBeta-~] $ yasm --version
yasm 0.6.2.1985
Compiled on Aug 12 2008.
Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Peter Johnson and other Yasm developers.
Run yasm --license for licensing overview and summary.
[earlz@EarlzBeta-~] $ pcc -v
pcc 0.9.9 for i386-unknown-openbsd4.4, [email protected] Tue Mar 31 13:16:51 CDT 2009
no input files
[earlz@EarlzBeta-~] $ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-openbsd4.4/3.3.5/specs
Configured with:
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3.5 (propolice)
[earlz@EarlzBeta-~] $

btw, the gcc is very heavily patched, and pcc is a CVS version.

also I have this system that my website runs on (and compiles nightly builds of my OS)

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[earlz][~]$ uname -a
Linux earlz.biz.tm 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 25 17:28:02 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[earlz][~]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)
[earlz][~]$ yasm --version
yasm 0.7.2.2153
Compiled on Oct 31 2008.
Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Peter Johnson and other Yasm developers.
Run yasm --license for licensing overview and summary.
[earlz][~]$

haven't got pcc compiled on it yet..

Also, I make sure that all my projects(in C) compile with both GCC and PCC.. which can have it's difficult moments when PCC has some strange code generation bug or a "cannot produce code for node" bug.

[AJ]

Hi,

I'm using Windows XP and Windows Vista Home Premium on my development machines. I use Cygwin for my builds, with the latest versions of GCC, Binutils and NASM. I use qemu / bochs / virtualbox for testing (along with real hardware).

Since getting in to Pedigree I've also started using CMake, but for my own project tend to use a combination of shell scripts and make.

Cheers,
Adam

[pcmattman]

I run Vista Business and Ubuntu 8.10 on my machine (dual boot, most of my time in Linux).

On Windows:
Cygwin with i686-elf and i686-pedigree toolchains (one for compiling the kernel, the other for applications). I also have an arm-elf and ppc-elf toolchain.

On Ubuntu:
i686-elf and i686-pedigree toolchains. Also an arm-elf, ppc-elf and x86_64-elf toolchain.

NASM is only used for Pedigree (on both Windows and Linux), any other x86 assembly (or other architectures) I prefer GAS.

EDIT: All of that's GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19.1, for the record.

[Solar]

"The Classic". Gentoo Linux, vim / konsole, GCC / binutils, make, gdb. Subversion. Everything else is frills.

[ucosty]

GCC 4.3.3/Binutils 2.19, Make, Doxygen in a nice bash terminal on Mac OS X. TextMate is my editor of choice. I also use GIT.

[AaronMiller]

Those are some quite interesting toolchains. I'm surprised that there are so many OS devers that use Windows! Whenever I use Windows I use Notepad++ or Notepad 2 as my text editor, and try to use MinGW or DJGPP or Cygwin. Currently I'm having an issue with LD (PE operations on non PE format ./bin/kernel.bin) so I'm going to start looking for a replacement to the MinGW/Cygwin/DJGPP LD (The DJGPP one because it doesn't seem to execute most of the time :/)

Keep up the posts! I'm always interested in seeing this sort of information.

Cheers,

-naota

[earlz]

Those are some quite interesting toolchains. I'm surprised that there are so many OS devers that use Windows! Whenever I use Windows I use Notepad++ or Notepad 2 as my text editor, and try to use MinGW or DJGPP or Cygwin. Currently I'm having an issue with LD (PE operations on non PE format ./bin/kernel.bin) so I'm going to start looking for a replacement to the MinGW/Cygwin/DJGPP LD (The DJGPP one because it doesn't seem to execute most of the time :/)

Keep up the posts! I'm always interested in seeing this sort of information.

Cheers,

-naota

see the wiki for info on building a cross-compiler. That is the only way as most windows compilers are hack jobs so that it will run on windows so they don't have very strong support for anything but PE.

[neon]

NASM and MSVC++ 2008-includes its compiler+linker.

We get these toolchain posts quite often. You can also just search the forums for the past 10 or so other threads like this...

[UbarDPS]

Visual Studio 2008
Borland C++Builder 4
Borland C++ 5.02
Turbo Assembler 5.0

[ruisleipa]

I use the following for my project:

• nasm
• GNU binutils
• GNU make

For debugging I use bochs builtin debugger.

I might start also using as86 and bcc for usermode programs for my operating system.

[Tomaka17]

Am I the only one using an emulator for O/S developpment?

When I want to work on my project I use VirtualBox to start a text-mode Debian virtual machine which contains all the stuff for compilation (GCC, binutils, etc.)
...and I edit the sourcecode on Windows with SciTE

[Love4Boobies]

Am I the only one using an emulator for O/S developpment?

I'm not sure that's part of the toolchain par se.

Anyway, I'm using GCC 4.4.0 (used to also use NASM - which I still miss) and UPX to compress the kernel (yes, it works!). Working on my own compiler/assembler.