Zygomatic Source Snapshots
Obtaining The Snapshot
Source snapshots are build on a frequent basis, usually after a recent source change. They were originally build nightly but our host (SourceForge) has suspended cron jobs, so the tarballs must be manually rolled.
To get a snapshot, download a tarball from here.
You will also need at least the following tools to build the Zygomatic system from a source snapshot tarball. Note that the version numbers are those used for development and testing: other version may work but are not supported.
| Tool | Minimum Version | Reason |
| autoconf | 2.59 | Used to generate the configure file. |
| automake | 1.8 | Used to generate the Makefile.in and aclocal.m4 files. |
| toolchain | 3.5 | Used to generate the bootable OS image from the source files. The toolchain includes a cross compiler, linker, binary manipulation tools, and a basic runtime. |
| mtools | 3.9.9 | Used to create bootable floppy disk images under Linux and Windows development environments. Optional. |
| bochs | 2.1.1 | Used to simulate hardware for testing in the development environment. Optional. |
Building The Snapshot
Unroll the tarball in a source directory, then switch to your build directory, configure, and make.
Running The Snapshot
You can copy the kernel image to a bootable floppy disk and use that to boot a machine, or you can use the Bochs emulator to emulate a machine from a bootable floppy disk image.
To use bochs, I use the following command in the build directory:
% make && make floppy && make bochs
