Minimal_OS

This is a minimal OS built with Assembly language. It can be scaled up and connected to main source C/C++, Python or Bash/Zsh files.

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Pre-requesites for project

The project requires a UNIX-like environment. If you're on Windows, there're various ways of setting one up. You can use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), a Linux Virtual Machine, Cygwin or MSYS2. But, I most-likely recommend you to setup WSL which is the easiest to setup among other techniques. Read the documentation. If you're on macOS, then it can be very easy to install the required packages by `Homebrew'.

For this project, you need to install the following tools and softwares below -

• make
• nasm
• qemu-system-x86 for testing
• Your preferred source code editor (e.g., Visual Studio Code, NeoVim or Vim)

Tools installation

For Linux based OSes

# Ubuntu, Debian:
sudo apt install make nasm qemu-system-x86 -y

# Fedora:
sudo dnf install make nasm qemu-system-x86 -y

# Arch & Arch-based:
paru -S make nasm qemu-system-x86

NOTE - To install all the required packages on Arch Linux or Arch-based Linux distributions, you need an AUR Helper.

For macOS

brew install make nasm qemu-system-x86

Guide on writing the code

You can either clone this repository or create your own by following the steps below.

• Create a source directory named whatever you want (e.g., "src" or "kernel").
• Then create a build directory (outside of the source directory).
• Navigate to the source directory and inside there, create a Assembly language file named "main.asm".
• Copy and paste the code from this repository to your "main.asm" file and save it.
• Outside of the source directory, create a file for building the Assembly runnable OS, must be named "Makefile".

Building the OS Assembly code

• To build a Floppy Image and a Binary file, run the command in the terminal -

make

Testing on a Virtual Machine

• To test your OS in a Virtual Machine, run -

qemu-system-i386 -fda build/main_floppy.img

Output

After running Qemu Virtual Emulator, you can see similar screen like mine -