A Build System For C in C

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I recently started a new project where I had to decide (again) how to build this project. This decision is faced by any developer who use a language that does not have a standard way of building things. In my case, my project is to be written in C, my go-to language, and as we all know, it does not have any standard other than the standard spec. I usually go with CMake, as my go-to build system, because I’ve seen many projects use it. It’s almost like the “industry” standard. It’s very old, and regularly updated, to keep itself up to date with available libraries, frameworks, compiler features etc… and it might be good for very big projects, but I decided that I’ll try something simpler this time.

Project Initialisation

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We’ll use limine bootloader and use stivale2 as our boot protocol. There are multiple boot protocols and stivale2 provides many advanced features. Limine supports stivale2 by default. It also gives us a way to instantly print anything on screen but we won’t be using that. To read more about stivale2 boot specification, read here

Create project with following directory structure

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├── CMakeLists.txt
├── kernel
│   ├── kernel.c
│   ├── kernel.h
│   └── stivale2.h
└── limine
 ├── bochsrc
 ├── build-aux
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19 directories, 183 files

kernel will contain our kernel code. Soon we’ll be creating many other folders. Use wget to get stivale2 header file. Initialise a git repository and add limine boot loader as a submodule.

Cmake on Siddharth Mishra

A Build System For C in C

Project Initialisation