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Running MOSA

Prerequisites

1. Download the MOSA source code. See the Getting Mosa page for details.

2. Windows: Install Visual Studio 2010, and either the Express or Professional version.

Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 is available for free from Microsoft.

3. Linux: Install Mono and NAnt:

sudo apt-get -y install mono-devel nant

4. MacOS: Install NAnt and Qemu.

Note: MOSA can also be compiled on Windows and MacOS using Mono. At this time, however, we do not have instructions for it.

Running

On Windows, double click on the "Run-HelloWorld.bat" script in the root directory. On Linux, execute the "Run-HelloWorld.sh" script in the root directory.

The scripts will:

  1. Compile MOSA compiler, tools, and sample hello world kernel.
  2. Compile the hello world kernel to native binary using the MOSA compiler.
  3. Create an virtual disk image, format it, and then copy the compiled binary and boot loader to the disk image.
  4. Launch QEMU with the virtual disk image.

See some Screenshots.