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Building MultICE
MultICE uses a relatively simple build system. It has been tested on Arch Linux, Debian Linux, OpenOS and Plan9k.
1. Choose modules.
The system is made out of modules from the modules/ directory. When you run the build script, it assembles them, and optionally optomises the code for space.
Modules are specified in the modules.cfg file and are relative to the modules/ folder.
An example for interactive usage with networking:
base/header.lua
drivers/dterm.lua
library/print.lua
drivers/keyboard.lua
library/net.lua
applications/luash.lua
base/footer.lua
2. Configure build system
The build system has a configuration file build.cfg.
optomise
Can either be yes or no.
Specifies whether to run the simple optimisation function on the kernel.
test
Can either be yes or no.
Specifies whether to test the final kernel (using load). Only picks up syntax errors.
log
Can either be yes or no.
Specifies whether to output log files.
opath
Specifies where to put the output kernel.
3. Build.
Simply run build.lua. Under OpenOS or plan9k that may just be going to the right dir and entering build, but under proper UNIX systems it may involve lua build.lua.