OSLib Requirements

Host and Target

In order to compile and run OSLib programs, you need an host machine (for development) and a target machine (for running the OSLib programs). Note that the same computer can act as host and as target.

Host Requirements

Operating System (OS): You can compile OSLib programs using some different host OS in theory, any OS supporting gcc can be used; in practice, we successfully compiled OSLib from Linux and from DOS (Win95/98/NT + Cygnus should also work, but it has not been tested).
Compiler: The used compiler is gcc. You can use the gcc version that you prefer (we tested gcc 2.7.2 and 2.91 for Linux and DJGPP V1/V2 for MSDOS), the important thing is that the linker produces ELF or GNUCOFF binaries (in order to be MultiBoot compliant).
Other utilities: GNU Make

Target Requirements

The target have to be at least a PC based on Intel 80486 (or compatible) - SMP is not supported - with at least 4Mb of RAM. In order to load OSLib programs (MultiBoot compliant), the target must have GRUB installed, or it must run a real mode operating system (such as MSDOS or FreeDOS). If you intend to boot OSLib programs from DOS, you also have to download our DOS eXtender X.