netclover's Introduction

Netclover 🍀

This is a hobby 64-bit operating system for networking.

Why are you making this?

To quote the OSDev wiki's introduction page

Having complete control over the machine. When developing an application or other userspace program, the developer has to take the code written by others into consideration: the operating system, the libraries, other programs, etc. It is a powerful feeling for the only code to be running on a machine to be your own.

and most importantly

Because it's fun. Low level programming is a fun and exciting task, because you have to do everything. This may seem more difficult (it is, don't worry) but by the same reasons more fun. You know how everything works, how it all fits, and the inner-most workings of your program.

How do I build?

Install these packages:

Debian (and Ubuntu, Mint, WSL, etc) users: sudo apt install build-essential bison flex libgmp3-dev libmpc-dev libmpfr-dev texinfo qemu-utils qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-gui bochs
Arch Linux (and Manjaro) users: sudo (your favorite AUR helper) -Sy base-devel gmp libmp3 mpfr qemu-desktop bochs
Windows users: Install WSL by following this guide and follow Debian steps

After installing packages build a GCC Cross-Compiler targeting i686-elf and x86_64-elf by following this guide, the version of GCC and binutils used is 13.2 and 2.42 respectively.

Once done building the cross compiler you can go to the root of the project folder and run make run to run the operating system. To copy to a floppy disk build the operating system via make and then run ./floppycopy as root and have a floppy disk inserted.