Getting Started

Forum thread started by davidvasta on Tue, 2006-10-31 22:23

Does anyone have or know of a way to help someone who wants to start helping on the DEV side. I am new to all of this. I have been on the iSeries for years (16) (iSeries or AS/400 doing COBOL/RPG/CL) and have been a long time user of BeOS and have starred at Haiku for years hoping to help out and I think it's time for me to just dive in and help out where I can.

I need to set up a development workstation where I can do the work. Is there a Doc or a easy set up guide to help me get going fast?

Is there someone who could put one together and post it so that I can either use BeOS 5 or Linux to get working and looking at the code to make some contribs.

Thanks,
David

Comments

Getting Started

by eNGIMa - 2006-11-01 03:09

Have a look at: 'Getting Started': http://haiku-os.org/node/20
It has pretty much everything you need :)

Getting Started

by davidvasta - 2006-11-01 04:44

eNGIMa wrote:

Have a look at: 'Getting Started': http://haiku-os.org/node/20
It has pretty much everything you need :)

Thanks I am reading that now. Is there a way i can do this on my Mac? I have been using MacOSX for a while and if there is an easy way to get that running on my Mac I would like it, but I guess I would still need VMWare and such which does not run on MacOSX...yet...

Getting Started

by Sikosis - 2006-11-01 04:48

yeh ... I've tried QEMU on the Mac ... but its very slow and proly not worthy of showing off Haiku.

I'm waiting for VMWare to release their Mac version. They've announced it's coming ... but that's all I know.

The other option would be, if you had an Intel based Mac, you could use Parallels. There's some threads in there where guys have had some success with it.

Getting Started

by koki - 2006-11-01 06:18

davidvasta wrote:

eNGIMa wrote:

Have a look at: 'Getting Started': http://haiku-os.org/node/20
It has pretty much everything you need :)

Thanks I am reading that now. Is there a way i can do this on my Mac? I have been using MacOSX for a while and if there is an easy way to get that running on my Mac I would like it, but I guess I would still need VMWare and such which does not run on MacOSX...yet...

Here's how to get Haiku to work in Parallels:

* Download a nightly build (www.haikuhost.com/buildfactory/haiku.image.bz2)
* Rename the haiku.image file to haiku.hdd
* Use ImageTool to resize the hdd file to 120MB.
* Create a new VM in Parallels, with Guest OS Type as Windows.
* Set the Hard Drive to the haiku.hdd file that you downloaded.

You may be able to find more info/help here:

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=14827

Cheers,

MacOSX and Coding

by davidvasta - 2006-11-01 16:20

I was thinking more along the lines of writing the code, checking it out and such. Do the DEV tools in MacOSX have the right things to be able to work with the Haiku Code?

Re: MacOSX and Coding

by j_freeman - 2006-11-01 19:17

davidvasta wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of writing the code, checking it out and such. Do the DEV tools in MacOSX have the right things to be able to work with the Haiku Code?

Hi, David. I'm not a developer so I may not be the best person to answer this, but... as far as I know the cross-compilation tools have only been used, to my knowledge, under Linux-based systems.

That said, why not try following the Linux build guide and see if it works (afterall, isn't OSX built on BSD?). If it doesn't work, maybe that's something you could help Eric Petit work on... I believe he's the one who created the cross-compilation tools.

I don't see why a OS X cross-compilation suite couldn't be developed, as the requisites are GCC and SVN, which should both be available for your platform.

Getting Started

by Sikosis - 2006-11-02 01:27

yeh see how you go (and let us know) with this ... I had a crack at using FreeBSD to do some work, but didn't get far and in all honesty, I never got back into it.

Getting Started

by davidvasta - 2006-11-02 04:13

Sikosis wrote:

yeh see how you go (and let us know) with this ... I had a crack at using FreeBSD to do some work, but didn't get far and in all honesty, I never got back into it.

What team are you a lead