Building Haiku on Ubuntu Linux, Step by Step

Architecture

To check whether your target architecture is support visit Port status.

Pre-requisite Software

You need some tools in order to build Haiku. See Pre-requisite software and install the tools mentioned there.

Getting the Source Code

To download Haiku’s source anonymously, enter

git clone https://review.haiku-os.org/buildtools #needed for building
git clone https://review.haiku-os.org/haiku #actual source

If you’d like to learn more about downloading through git and git workflow, visit Getting the source code.

Compiling for x86_64

x86_64 Compiler Toolset

Building the x86_64 compiler toolset is quite easy and involves generating GCC binaries for your platform. For a complete list of flags for the configure script, see Haiku’s Configure options.

x86_64 exclusively uses gcc7, this differs from our 32-bit x86_gcc2 builds which include both gcc2 (for BeOS compatibility) and gcc7 as a secondary architecture.

From the Haiku source directory, run the following to compile the build tools (be sure to adjust the options to match your build environment):

Working in a clean build directory:

mkdir generated.x86_64; cd generated.x86_64
../configure --cross-tools-source ../../buildtools --build-cross-tools x86_64

Working in the top level:

./configure --cross-tools-source ../buildtools --build-cross-tools x86_64

x86_64 Haiku Builds

These builds require a valid x86_64 compiler toolset (see above), and might also need additional software packages installed – see the Pre-requisite software page for more details.

These commands should be run from the same path you ran your configure in above.

Compiling a nightly anyboot Haiku iso image

This is the standard build which which results in a live ISO that can be burned to an optical disc, or written to a USB stick.

jam -q -j2 @nightly-anyboot

Compiling a nightly raw disk images

This generates a simple raw disk image of Haiku which can be booted directly in a VM or written to a USB stick.

jam -q -j2 @nightly-raw