Thanks for you suggestion Denis, I'll look into that link. --KK On 1/9/2011 10:10 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote: > This guy has ported Linux to gcc4.x: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/abdel/readme > I think that will help you > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:14 PM, KK<nitric.acid@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello All, >> I was going through the linux kernel newbie articles in >> kernelnewbies.com and found it very interesting. I downloaded the >> tarballs for the 0.01 version of kernel from : >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ >> >> Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code >> and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls >> etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following >> errors: >> >> $ make -f Makefile >> gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s >> make: gas: Command not found >> make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 127 >> >> Then I searched in the web for GAS and found that it GNU AS. I've "as" >> installed in my box, so I tried creating a symlink with the name "gas" >> but then bumped into another error: >> >> $ make >> gas -c -o boot/head.o boot/head.s >> gas: unrecognized option `-c' >> make: *** [boot/head.o] Error 1 >> >> Is GNU AS same as "as" ? when running version check I got this: >> $ as --version >> GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410 >> Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the >> terms of >> the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. >> This program has absolutely no warranty. >> This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-cygwin'. >> >> I tried searching on the web to find ways to install "GNU AS" but could >> not get any useful info. I'm facing similar problem with "GNU LD". Is it >> different from the "ld": >> $ ld --version >> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100410 >> Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the >> terms of >> the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a >> later version. >> This program has absolutely no warranty. >> >> Can someone help me installing these two or let me know what is the fix >> for the same. >> >> I'm running cygwin on Win7-64 bit >> >> >> Thanks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
