An ISO Image Related Remark

[Chris Rothrock]

you don't need a GenodeOS ISO image, but in order to compile, you need the
Genode Toolchain.  Instructions for downloading and extracting are found
here:

https://genode.org/download/tool-chain

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Martin Vahi <martin.vahi at ...427...> wrote:

>
> Dear whoever reads this,
>
> The only purpose of my current letter is to note
> that the GenodeOS gets beaten by the MINIX3 at
> getting newcomers on-board due to the fact that
> the MINIX3 has an ISO image that people can install
> to VirtualBox and the GenodeOS lacks such
> downloadable image.
>
> Actually, I once obtained one such GenodeOS image
> in 2010, but today is 2017. I haven't exhaustively
> tested the GenodeOS book, but at first glance it seems
> that the book assumes, at least from paths' point of view,
> a person is required to run a copy of the
> GenodeOS before building the GenodeOS.
> For example, after cloning the
>
>     https://github.com/genodelabs/genode
>
> and following instructions on page 24 of the 2017_08_22 version of the
>
>     (Chapter 2.3, "Using the build system")
>     http://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-17-05.pdf
>
> namely
>
>     ./tool/create_builddir x86_64
>     cd ./build/x86_64
>     nice -n20 make
>
> I get an error message
>
>     ---citation---start----
>     /bin/bash: /usr/local/genode-gcc/bin/genode-x86-g++: No such file or
> directory
>     ---citation---end------
>
> Obviously I AM NOT running GenodeOS, if I'm a
> newcomer and want to try out the GenodeOS for the
> very first time. As I wasn't given an ISO image to
> to try the GenodeOS, then my next step is to follow
> the official instructions, which in this case is to build the
> GenodeOS myself. Yet, the build system assumes that I'm
> building the GenodeOS WHILE RUNNING GENODEOS, because
> hardly any Linux or BSD distribution has a path like
>
>     /usr/local/genode-gcc
>
> available by default. A chicken and an egg. There's a
> need for a grown up bird to lay the egg, but if
> the whole path of software-/bio-evolution
> is to be skipped, then a lamb must be able to
> give birth to a non-mammal, a lizard, a bird, a fish,
> to make fast bootstrapping possible,
> not to mention "The Alien Option":
>
>     https://youtu.be/zCqoA-FGgoc?t=20s
>
>
> Thank You for reading my comment :-)
>
>
>
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Thank You,

Chris Rothrock
Senior System Administrator
(315) 308-1637
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