Building Darwin

From OSx86

first you need to have a Power PC apple!

I recommend tiger, you must have XCODE installed (you might need x11 ??)

1. Setup DarwinBuild
   1. download darwinbuild and unzip it http://opendarwin.org/projects/darwinbuild/releases/darwinbuild-0.7.2.tar.gz
   2. open up your terminal and change the directory to where where you downloaded
      1. if on your desktop #cd desktop/darwinbuild-0.7.2
   3. now you need to make, and install darwinbuild

 # make
 # sudo -s
 # make install

1. 1. by default it installs into the wrong directory, so you need to add it to your path

 # export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"

1. 1. next you will need to create a build enviroment (the dmg will be in the darwinbuild directory)

 # hdiutil create -size 4g -type UDIF -fs HFSX -volname Builds \
       -uid 0 -gid 0 -attach Builds.dmg

1. 1. make the drive writable

 # sudo vsdbutil -a /Volumes/Builds

1. 1. go to the darwin directory and make a foder for 8.3

 # cd /Volumes/Builds
 # mkdir Build8F46
 # cd Build8F46

1. 1. now you will create the plist files before you build Darwin

 # darwinbuild -init 8F46

1. 1. now you will build darwin

 # darwinbuild xnu

1. 1. If it completed successfully you will have all of darwins files, associated with the kernel, in your Roots directory :) (/Volumes/Builds/Build8F64/Roots/)

 Please make a comment if it works well for you, thanks :)

most of this information was taken from

http://opendarwin.org/projects/darwinbuild/releases/README