haynes@island.COM (Rob Haynes) (06/01/91)
I've heard you can run gcc on a 386. I assume the steps are as outlined below. Can you help me understand this better? 1) Buy a 386 motherboard (will an 386SX work?). 2) Get Minix 1.5, and the 386 patches. (Where do I email to get this sent to me? I'm can't ftp.) 3) Apply the 386 patches to Minix, and get the 386 version to boot. (I've read that people have had trouble booting Minix on 386 machines. Can a reasonable competent programmers (such as myself) get past these problems? I've ported v1.2 to a not-so-compatible PC which primarily involved rewriting the HD driver and keyboard driver.) 4) Get gcc sources. How do I boot the compiler? (i.e. Is the compiler that comes with Minix sufficient to compile GCC?) Would it be better to try to get a Minix binaries for the gnu preprocessor, compiler, and loader? Has anyone tried g++ on Minix?