Building Haiku from source code

The following instructions are specifically to building haiku for x86_64 but you can always try building for other architectures too.

Clonning the source code

The official repository seems broken anyway didn’t work out for me so I clonned from github repo

git clone https://github.com/haiku/haiku.git

Haiku uses some external tools to build from the source code

git clone https://github.com/haiku/buildtools.git

make sure that both the clonned repositories are in the same directories

Compiling buildtools

Create a directory where you are going to save the build image and related files

mkdir generated.x86_64; cd generated.x86_64

For compiling

../configure --build-cross-tools x86_64 ../../buildtools

Building the image

Before building the image you need to install some dependencies

sudo apt-get install git nasm autoconf automake texinfo flex bison gawk build-essential unzip wget zip less zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev genisoimage libtool

Aditional requirements for ARM

sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools util-linux mtools device-tree-compiler bc

For creating nightly anyboot Haiku iso image

jam -q -j2 @nightly-anyboot

For creating nightly raw disk images

jam -q -j2 @nightly-raw

Error

Now if you getting an error while building, specifically about haiku revision. Then,

cd $home/haiku/build/jam

cat UserBuildConfig

Now copy hrexxxxx, and go to haiku/generated.x86_64/build

cd $home/haiku/generated.x86_64/build

Then created and write into the file

echo -n "hrevxxxxx" > haiku-revision

Your error will be fixed

Emulation with Qemu

Installing Qemu

Qemu is a software in which you can emulate various hardware and on top of that you can run OS in vitual enviornment

sudo apt-get install qemu

Booting OS in virtual drive

Now create an virtual harddrive in which you are going to boot the OS

qemu-img create haiku-vm.img 10G

Now boot the OS in the virtual drive

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom haiku/generated.x86_64/haiku-nightly-anyboot.iso -m 512 -hda haiku-vm.img

Now you can simply run the virtual drive

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 haiku-vm.img

If you have any issues with building and emulation, feel free to comment :)

Hope this helps!