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ToaruOS is a 64-bit, hobbyist, educational, Unix-like operating system built entirely from scratch. It includes a kernel, bootloader, dynamic linker, C standard library, composited windowing system, and several utilities and applications. All components of the core operating system are original, providing a complete environment in approximately 80,000 lines of C and assembly, all of which is included in this repository.
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*Demonstration of ToaruOS's UI, terminal emulator, and text editor.*
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*Demonstration of ToaruOS's UI and some applications.*
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## History
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ToaruOS 1.0 was released in January, 2017, and featured a Python userspace built on Newlib. Since 1.6.x, ToaruOS has had its own C library, dependencies on third-party libraries have been removed, and most of the Python userspace has been rewritten in C. More recent releases have focused on improving the C library support, providing more ports in our package repository, and adding new features.
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In April, 2021, work began on ToaruOS 2.0, which brings a rewritten kernel for x86-64 (and potentially other architectures) and support for SMP. The new "Misaka" kernel was merged upstream at the end of May. Completion of ToaruOS 2.0 is currently ongoing.
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In April, 2021, work began on ToaruOS 2.0, which brings a rewritten kernel for x86-64 (and potentially other architectures) and support for SMP. The new "Misaka" kernel was merged upstream at the end of May.
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## Features
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- **Dynamically linked userspace** with support for runtime `dlopen`ing of additional libraries.
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- **Composited graphical UI** with SSE-accelerated alpha blitting and optional Cairo backend.
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- **Composited graphical UI** with software acceleration and a late-2000s design inspiration.
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- **VM integration** for absolute mouse and automatic display sizing in VirtualBox and VMware Workstation.
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- **Unix-like terminal interface** including a feature-rich terminal emulator and several familiar utilities.
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- **Optional third-party ports** including GCC 10.3, Binutils, SDL1.2, Quake, and more.
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### Notable Components
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- **Misaka Kernel**, [kernel/](kernel/), the core of the operating system.
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- **Yutani** (window compositor), [apps/compositor.c](apps/compositor.c), manages window buffers, layout, and input routing.
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- **Misaka** (kernel), [kernel/](kernel/), the core of the operating system.
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- **Yutani** (window compositor), [apps/compositor.c](apps/compositor.c), manages window buffers, layout, and input routing.
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- **Bim** (text editor), [apps/bim.c](apps/bim.c), is a vim-inspired editor with syntax highlighting.
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- **Terminal**, [apps/terminal.c](apps/terminal.c), xterm-esque terminal emulator with 256 and 24-bit color support.
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- **ld.so** (dynamic linker/loader), [linker/linker.c](linker/linker.c), loads dynamically-linked ELF binaries.
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- **Esh** (shell), [apps/sh.c](apps/sh.c), supports pipes, redirections, variables, and more.
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- **Kuroko**, [kuroko/](https://kuroko-lang.github.io/), a dynamic bytecode-compiled programming language.
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- **Kuroko** (interpreter), [kuroko/](https://kuroko-lang.github.io/), a dynamic bytecode-compiled programming language.
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## Current Goals
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## Building / Installation
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*This section is being updated to reflect changes in ToaruOS 2.0 and may be outdated or incorrect.*
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To build ToaruOS from source, it is currently recommended you use a recent Debian- or Ubuntu-derived Linux host environment. Our build machines generally run Ubuntu 20.04 (the current LTS as of writing).
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Several packages are necessary for the build system: `build-essential` (to build the cross-compiler), `xorriso` (to create CD images), `python3` (various build scripts), `mtools` (for building FAT EFI system partitions), `gnu-efi` (for building the EFI loaders).
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Beyond package installation, no part of the build needs root privileges.
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The build process has two parts: building a cross-compiler, and building the operating system. The cross-compiler uses GCC 10.3 and can be built by pulling the submodules `util/binutils-gdb` and `util/gcc` and running `util/build-toolchain.sh`. Generally, this only needs to be done once, and the cross-compiler does not depend on any of the components built for the operating system itself, though some components may have soft dependencies on the libc. Once the cross-compiler has been built, `make` will continue to build the operating system itself.
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### Building With Docker
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You can skip the process of building the cross-compiler toolchain (which doesn't get updated very often anyway) by using our pre-built toolchain through Docker:
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General users hoping to build ToaruOS from source are recommended to use our prebuilt Docker image, which contains all the necessary tools:
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git clone --recursive https://github.com/klange/toaruos
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cd toaruos
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docker pull toaruos/build-tools:1.99.x
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docker run -v `pwd`:/root/misaka -w /root/misaka -e LANG=C.UTF-8 -t toaruos/build-tools:1.99.x util/build-in-docker.sh
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After building like this, you can run the various utility targets (`make run`, etc.). Try `make shell` to run a ToaruOS shell (using QEMU and a network socket - you'll need netcat for this to work).
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After building like this, you can run the various utility targets (`make run`, etc.). Try `make shell` to run a ToaruOS shell using a serial port with QEMU.
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### Build Process Internals
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The `Makefile` uses a Kuroko tool, `auto-dep.krk`, to generate additional Makefiles for the userspace applications libraries, automatically resolving dependencies based on `#include` directives.
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The `Makefile` uses a Kuroko tool, `auto-dep.krk`, to generate additional Makefiles for the userspace applications and libraries, automatically resolving dependencies based on `#include` directives.
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In an indeterminate order, the C library, kernel, userspace librares and applications are built.
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In an indeterminate order, the C library, kernel, userspace librares and applications are built, combined into a compressed archive for use as a ramdisk, and then packaged into an ISO9660 filesystem image.
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### Project Layout
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- **apps** - Userspace applications, all first-party.
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- **base** - Ramdisk root filesystem staging directory. Includes C headers in `base/usr/include`, as well as graphical resources for the compositor and window decorator.
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- **boot** - Old bootloaders, not yet ready for ToaruOS 2.0.
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- **boot** - Legacy BIOS loader.
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- **build** - Auxiliary build scripts for future platform ports.
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- **kernel** - The Misaka kernel.
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- **kuroko** - Submodule checkout of the Kuroko interpreter.
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- **lib** - Userspace libraries.
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- **libc** - C standard library implementation.
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- **linker** - Userspace dynamic linker/loader, implements shared library support.
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## Running ToaruOS
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Currently, the build tools in this repository will produce a kernel binary and a compressed ramdisk, which can be used with a Multiboot-compliant loader such as GRUB. QEMU also provides direct support for loading Multiboot kernels:
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### QEMU
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```
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qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -kernel misaka-kernel -initrd ramdisk.igz -append "root=/dev/ram0 start=live-session migrate" -enable-kvm -m 1G
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qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -enable-kvm -m 1G -soundhw ac97 -cdrom image.iso
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```
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### Other
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Until the native bootloaders are ready for ToaruOS 2.0, testing in other virtual machines can be done [with GRUB](https://github.com/klange/toaruos-grub/tree/misaka).
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The legacy BIOS loader has been tested in VirtualBox and VMWare. For both, set up a virtual machine with an "Other (64-bit)" guest OS and attach the CD image. A least 32MB of display memory and 1GB of RAM are recommended. Some hardware configurations may not be supported.
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For testing with EFI systems or on real hardware, [GRUB is recommended](https://github.com/klange/toaruos-grub/tree/misaka) until the native EFI loader is rewritten.
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## Community
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