reactos/INSTALL

   1 1. Build environment
   2
   3 To build the system you need either mingw32 installed on Windows or a
   4 mingw32 cross compiler running on unix.
   5
   6 2. Building
   7
   8 To build from Windows run make. To build from unix, edit rules.mak and change
   9 the PREFIX variable to the correct value for your cross-compiler, then run
  10 'make'.
  11
  12 3. Installation
  13
  14 Installation isn't yet automated, sorry. The system can only be installed on
  15 the first partition which must be formatted for DOS. Set up a directory
  16 structure like the following
  17
  18 make directories C:\reactos,C:\reactos\system32,C:\reactos\system32\drivers
  19
  20 Copy apps/system/shell/shell.exe to C:\reactos\system32
  21 Copy subsys/smss/smss.exe to C:\reactos\system32
  22 Copy apps/system/winlogon/winlogon.exe to C:\reactos\system32
  23 Copy apps/system/services/services.exe to C:\reactos\system32
  24 Copy services/input/keyboard/keyboard.sys to C:\reactos\system32\drivers
  25 Copy services/dd/blue/blue.sys to C:\reactos\system32\drivers
  26 Copy lib/ntdll/ntdll.dll to C:\reactos\system32
  27 Copy lib/kernel32/kernel32.dll to C:\reactos\system32
  28 Copy lib/crtdll/crtdll.dll to C:\reactos\system32
  29
  30 The system can only be started from DOS. Copy the following files,
  31 services/dd/ide/ide.sys, services/fs/vfat/vfatfsd.sys
  32 ntoskrnl/ntoskrnl.exe and loaders/dos/loadros.com, to a suitable
  33 directory, such as C:\. The system can then be booted with the
  34 command 'loadros.com ntoskrnl.exe ide.sys vfatfs.sys'.
  35
  36
  37 You may also want to try running the enhanced shell, cmd.exe, found in
  38 the rosapps CVS module.  For more information see the doc directory
  39