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gmarino2048 / 64bit-os-tutorial

This OS Tutorial expands on the fundamental concepts covered in cfenollosa/os-tutorial and covers entering long mode on the x86_64 architecture. It also uses clang rather than relying on an external crosscompiler. I plan on keeping it up to date, so feel free to submit an issue!
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Infinite loop on Windows #4

Closed twisted-nematic57 closed 2 years ago

twisted-nematic57 commented 2 years ago

I installed Cygwin and everything for the cp and cat commands, and did everything like in the tutorial. But QEMU is showing an infinite loop.

Is it possible that you could port this tutorial over to Windows through Batchfile please? Thanks.

gmarino2048 commented 2 years ago

Hello, Windows support is not something I'm willing to work for at this time. Since Microsoft has chosen to not support separate shells without emulation, I'd have to write and test Windows versions for all of the build scripts. I'm busy working on other projects at this time, and don't have time right now to put in the work it would take to ensure the same level of quality on Windows.

The other reason that I probably won't end up catering to Windows for this project is because Linux is completely free to use. Not only is the software itself free, but you can also run a Virtual Machine for free using VirtualBox. This is the route I would recommend for Windows users, as the virtual machine is very lightweight and should run on most devices. To be honest, support for Mac was more of a happy accident since the commands just happened to work with minimal effort. Ubuntu 20.04 will always be the recommended development environment for this project.

That being said, QEMU should be platform agnostic, and the behavior of the provided files should not change just because you're running on WIndows. The scripts themselves use infinite loops to "terminate" the program once they've finished, so please verify that the behavior is actually unexpected. This also sounds like it could be an issue with QEMU, although with the very limited information I have here it's impossible to tell. If you end up working through the issue, feel free to submit a pull request, and I'll see if I can take a look through it.

twisted-nematic57 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I just ended up literally copypasting everything again and now it works. I must've mis-typed something. Thanks again for being a champ and making this whole thing 💖