Anthill OS

A distributed operating system for the aarch64 architecture.

Prerequisites

• A cross compiler. Either:
  • gcc cross compiler for aarch64-elf.
  • clang
• Meson
• Ninja
• QEMU (currently works only up to version 8.2.1)
• GDB for debugging (optional)

Building

Using gcc:

meson setup --cross-file cross/aarch64-elf.ini --cross-file cross/gcc.ini build
meson install -C build

Using clang:

meson setup --cross-file cross/aarch64-elf.ini --cross-file cross/clang.ini build
meson install -C build

This will build the project and create the sysroot under build/sysroot

Running

To run with QEMU:

./run

To run with QEMU and connect GDB:

./run -d

This will start and halt qemu, connect gdb and load the symbols. To continue, type c.