This repo was created in order to encourage renewed interest in the JNode opeerating system and integrate modern patches. As most new development is centered around Rust and Go (and others), I don't expect too much activity, but here it is if you're interested.
Note that I personally am not very familiar with the codebase, so it will take some time for me to get up to speed...
But I am soliciting collaboration in all aspects. So have fun.
In this file, you find the instructions needed to setup a JNode development environment.
JNode has been divided into several sub-projects in order to keep it "accessible". These sub-projects are:
JNode-All The root project where everything comes together
JNode-Cli Various command line commands
JNode-Core The core java classes, the Virtual Machine, the OS kernel and the Driver framework
JNode-Distr Tools and apps needed for a JNode "distribution"
JNode-FS The Filesystems and the various block device drivers
JNode-GUI The AWT implementation and the various video & input device drivers
JNode-Net The Network implementation and the various network device drivers
JNode-Shell The Command line shell and several system commands
JNode-Sound Future work
JNode-Textui Text based AWT interface
Each sub-project has the same directory structure:
<subprj>/build All build results
<subprj>/descriptors All plugin descriptors
<subprj>/lib All sub-project specific libraries
<subprj>/src All sources
<subprj>/.classpath The eclipse classpath file
<subprj>/.project The eclipse project file
<subprj>/build.xml The Ant buildfile
<subprj>/build-tests.xml The Ant buildfile for running all tests of this subproject
JNode is usually developed in Eclipse. (It can be done without)
The various sub-projects must be imported into eclipse. Since they reference each other, it is advisably to import them all at the same time
using Import -> Existing projects into workspace.
As the code has not been modified, it should still work in Eclipse...
There had seemed to be some interest in compiling this with Gradle. I am not against that. My preferred IDE is IDEA, and netbeans (13 now, or whatever version would be compatible) is second place.
Execute:
On Windows: build.bat cd-x86-lite
On Linux: build.sh cd-x86-lite
Or in Eclipse, execute the "cd-x86-lite" target of all/build.xml.
The build will result in the following files:
all/build/cdroms/jnode-x86-lite.iso bootable CD image
all/build/cdroms/jnode-x86-lite.iso.vmx VMWare configuration file
On VMWare: Open all/build/cdroms/jnode-x86-lite.iso.vmx and click Start.
On Linux: qemu.sh
If you have any questions, please post them to the Github Discussions tab.
-- The JNode-revisited Team --