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

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 4:51 PM Nick Desaulniers
<nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx> 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).  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?
>
> Take a look at the commit message linked below for the trials & tribulations:
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/commit/f06333e29addbc3d714adb340355f471c1dfe95a
>
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



I see some efforts in this direction, for example,


commit dd2a3acaecd7abb2d43b09a823cf2e4c967fa2ac
Author: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Feb 24 08:23:53 2012 +0100

    mod/file2alias: make modpost compile on darwin again



I do not mind a small amount of code addition.
It may be broken from time to time because there are less number of
developers testing kernel builds on macOS.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada