linux-kernel - Re: Any interest in building the Linux kernel from a MacOS host?

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Message-Id: <ba821ade-1573-4c35-8fbb-285283817147@app.fastmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:09:41 +0200
From:   "Sven Peter" <sven@...npeter.dev>
To:     "Nick Desaulniers" <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        "Hector Martin" <marcan@...can.st>
Cc:     "Nick Desaulniers" <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>,
        "Linux Kbuild mailing list" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        asahi@...ts.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Any interest in building the Linux kernel from a MacOS host?

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, at 09:51, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Not sure if this is potentially interesting to anyone but I was able
> to get the kernel building from MacOS my M2 Air with a small amount of
> effort (read: duct tape and bailing wire).  

I originally tried exactly that last year but I guess my duct tape wasn't
quite strong enough ;)

> If this might seem helpful
> to anyone's workflow, I wouldn't mind pursuing this (with some
> cleanup, sending a more formal patch set).  Maybe this helps us
> bootstrap or get Linux up and running sooner on these machines?

I've been either using a Linux VM or just a bare metal system running
on these machine for quite a while now to build kernels. This would've
been useful when I originally started though and VMs weren't working very
well yet so maybe it's still worth pursuing.


>
> Take a look at the commit message linked below for the trials & 
> tribulations:
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/commit/f06333e29addbc3d714adb340355f471c1dfe95a
>
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers


Best,


Sven