I can't build ToaruOS on my laptop

[mknos]

Hello,

Today I verified that the ToaruOS image.iso boots successfully from a USB stick on my HP laptop.
I would like to build things in /src for myself on this laptop, but image.iso doesn't contain gcc or any build tools.
Is there an alternative ISO I can use which includes all the msk packages [1] pre-installed?
Even if I set up a local mirror of the packages, the HP laptop's ethernet doesn't appear under ifconfig(1) so fetching from the local network wouldn't be possible.
Sorry if I missed something.

1. https://toaruos.org/msk/2.0.x/

[klange]

Is there an alternative ISO I can use which includes all the msk packages [1] pre-installed?

I only officially build CDs with original source code; there are no CD images with third-party ports.

If you are capable of running the Docker build tools, you can place gcc.tgz and binutils.tgz somewhere in base/ and they will appear on the resulting ramdisk, though you may need to adjust the scripts that build the CDs as they are not very good at automatically determining how much space they need to allocate. You could also extract them into base/ to have a system with gcc and binutils pre-installed. Either way, you will end up with a very large ramdisk and should expect longer boots and less available memory.

Even if I set up a local mirror of the packages, the HP laptop's ethernet doesn't appear under ifconfig(1) so fetching from the local network wouldn't be possible.

If it happens to be an Intel NIC, it is possible the existing driver would work, but doesn't check for the PCI device ID, and a small change could get you online. If it's not an Intel NIC, you could consider trying to write a driver for it. 😉

[mknos]

Thanks for the quick feedback.

For now I can use qemu instead of booting directly from a usb stick. Then I have interface enp0s3, with httpd on the host OS for fetching msk packages. Then I change /etc/msk.conf to...

remote_order=local

[remotes]
local=http://10.0.2.2/msk

Then install the packages manually:

# msk update
# msk install dash binutils gcc

I guess if I want to build some external software like Perl I would need to build a version of make(1) first.

[klange]

The greatest challenge with building third-party software from source releases is going to be running autotools scripts. The existing ports were all built using a cross-compiler on a Linux host.

[mknos]

The first challenge was that there was no gzip to extract make-4.4.1.tar.gz. I worked around this by decompressing the file on Linux first. Then tar -xf did not recognise the format of the file. I worked around this by extracting the file on Linux and creating a new tar with the --posix flag. I verified with file(1) that the original and new tar files were a different format. ToaruOS was able to extract the posix-format tar.

The next step was to run dash configure, but after a while it doesn't seem to print any output.

[klange]

no gzip

There is a gunzip which is our own in-house implementation. tar also automatically decompresses (by piping through gunzip) when the z flag is used (such as -xzf). (We don't have a compressor, though, only a decompressor.)

Then tar -xf did not recognise the format of the file.

For some reason, GNU Make is distributed in an old V7 archive instead of a USTAR archive; Toaru's tar implementation does not support these old archives.

The next step was to run dash configure, but after a while it doesn't seem to print any output.

You are not going to make progress with this, and GNU Make would not even be buildable for ToaruOS from a Linux host without serious effort.