reactos/INSTALL

   1 1. Build environment
   2
   3 To build the system you need either mingw32 installed on Windows or a mingw32
   4 cross compiler running on unix. You may obtain MinGW binaries that build
   5 ReactOS from http://www.reactos.com.
   6
   7
   8 2. Building ReactOS
   9
  10 To build from Windows run 'make' (wihout the quotes) from the top directory.
  11 To build from unix, edit rules.mak and change the PREFIX variable to the
  12 correct value for your cross-compiler. Run 'export HOST=mingw32-linux' to
  13 tell the ReactOS build system that it is building ReactOS on a linux machine.
  14 Now run 'make'.
  15
  16
  17 3. Installation
  18
  19 The system can only be installed on the first partition on the first harddisk.
  20 The partition must be formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. The system can only be
  21 started from DOS and not from a Windows DOS-prompt.
  22
  23 ReactOS can be installed from the source distribution or from the binary
  24 distribution. The two ways to install ReactOS are explained below.
  25
  26
  27 3.1 Installation from sources
  28
  29 To install ReactOS after building it, type 'make install'. This will create
  30 the directory 'reactos' in the top directory. Copy this directory to the root
  31 of your first partition on your first harddisk. This is usually c:\ on a
  32 Windows machine.
  33
  34 If you don't want to copy the files manually every time you run a 'make install',
  35 you can specify the directory where the files are to be copied to during
  36 installation.
  37
  38 In rules.mak find the variable INSTALL_DIR and change the assigned value to the
  39 name of the directory where the files are to be copied to. If you are using
  40 Windows this could be:
  41
  42     INSTALL_DIR = c:\reactos
  43
  44 If you are on linux this could be:
  45
  46     INSTALL_DIR = /mnt/windows/reactos
  47
  48 Save the changes to rules.mak and run 'make install' to install the files to
  49 the new location. If you don't want to change rules.mak, you can specify the
  50 installtion directory when invoking make. Run
  51 'make INSTALL_DIR=c:\reactos install' to install to c:\reactos.
  52
  53
  54 3.2 Installation from binany distribution
  55
  56 To install ReactOS from the binary distribution, extract the archive contents
  57 to c:\reactos. Remember to extract the files with full paths.
  58
  59
  60 4. Booting ReactOS
  61
  62 Startup in DOS mode. 'cd' to c:\reactos and type 'boot' and press <enter>.
  63 A simple shell is started where you can use simple commands like 'cd' and 'dir'.
  64
  65
  66 5. Help
  67
  68 If you run into problems or have suggestions for making ReactOS better, please
  69 surf to the address below and subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists.
  70
  71 http://www.reactos.com/index.php?tab=discussion&section=lists
  72
  73 ReactOS Development Team