General Haiku Discussion

Not sure where to put this really.
I noticed that there is no official build of haiku with gcc4, so I set out to make one myself. Built on Xubuntu 8.04.
I thought I might save some of you the time required to build haiku with GCC4, so I am posting it here.

This is a raw disk image, useable in qemu (not sure about other emulators, I use qemu) only 128mb in size, so you may want to make another disk image to work on.

The disk image is in a compressed tarball.
http://www.2shared.com/file/4879854/88d56b27/haiku_gcc4_raw.html

Have fun,
Conrad.

EDIT: Oops, silly me, I removed the file extension by mistake. Its .tar.bz2
Sorry :)

Hey guys,
Yesterday I finished reading all about Michael Lotz's efforts in getting GCC 4.3.3 native working in Haiku then successfully building Haiku with it.

I have downloaded the buildtools repository from SVN, which contains the new gcc and the new binutils.
Am I right in understanding that these have been patched and configured to a point that they will build under haiku without modification? I have been trying over and over with different ./configure options with no luck at all. I was initially getting errors relating ld not being able to find crtbegin.o during a certain part of the build. After a few hours of googling I overcame that error by specifically setting the path to the compiler using "CC=/home/develop/tools/gcc-2.95.3-haiku-081024/bin/gcc" on the configure line.
I am now getting the error "undefined reference to __popcountsi2" while building bitmap.o in the gcc/bitmap.c file. I have googled this one to death and cant find a solution. I initially thought it had something to do with the GMP and MPFR libraries that mmlr mentions in his blog, but upon further investigation I think it is unrelated.

I have also tried compiling the new binutils, but I am getting the error "noreturn function does return." in the bfd/bfd.c file. From what I could determine from some extensive google searching on this topic, it seems that there is a function (exit()?) which is being linked in from haiku which is not meant to return but does.

Anyway, if I could get any help with my problems would be greatly appreciated, been driving me nuts. I am really keen to do a native gcc4 build of haiku.

I was just wondering what priority the Haiku project plans to place on binary compatibility over time. I know initially it is pretty high since the major goal is binary compat. with BeOS R5 but what about moving on from there?

I have been using Linux for hobby development over the past 10 years or so, and am at the point where I just can't take it any more. Linux is such a moving target, binary distribution of anything is a nightmare. Different distributions, library versions rapidly changing, the occasional ABI changes, it's exhausting. Any complaints about not being able to run old binaries on a Linux box are always met with comments about downloading and compiling old library requirements, or a lecture on the evils of closed source/binary distribution. And the less said about the hostility and problems for closed source/binary Linux driver developers the better. I love developing ON Linux, but hate developing FOR Linux.

Not that I am a Windows fan, but I can take a very large number of apps compiled for Windows95 and run them on Windows Vista with little to no issue. I find that extremely important for a desktop OS. If getting a program to work on a user focused desktop system ever MENTIONS source code, something is wrong imo.

So, I am looking for a new hobby OS home.. =). I have compiled and started playing with Haiku and am very impressed (never did use BeOS). Just wondering if you guys share one of my higher priorities for a desktop OS.

Anyway, to make a short story long, is there going to be a focus on making it so I can compile a program for Haiku and, assuming no ugly hacks/undocumented API calls , run it on Haiku 5-10 years later?

Regards,
Rick Hansen

I am just coming back to BeOS/Haiku and am writing an application that has a BTabView. Within the individual BTabs I have a BScrollView and a BTextView. When I have more than one tab in the tab view and I resize the BWindow the inactive BTab's contents do not resize. When I switch the inactive tab to active then the frame doesn't take up the entire space in the BTabView(the lower right corner of the BTab/contents is not in the lower right corner of the BTabView).

I am passing B_WILL_DRAW | B_FRAME_EVENTS | B_FULL_UPDATE_ON_RESIZE for the flags to the BScollView and the BTextView. I am passing B_FOLLOW_ALL for the resizing mode.

How can I get the contents to resize? Do I need to override the FrameResized method in the BTextView?

I am using BeOS Max 4 (PE 5.03) on X86 hardware. Developing using BEIDE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.