I was wondering if there’s any news from the main Haiku developers on when Haiku could be expected to rebuild itself natively. That is, is it a ways away still before all of the development tools necessary to build Haiku…on Haiku…have been ported?
Thanks for the update.
I was wondering if there's any news from the main Haiku developers on when Haiku could be expected to rebuild itself natively. That is, is it a ways away still before all of the development tools necessary to build Haiku...on Haiku...have been ported?Thanks for the update.
Whoops, the Forum FAQ topic was supposed to be locked - so I moved this.
All of the build tools used to build Haiku from BeOS can be used on Haiku (GCC 2.95.3 and tools downloaded from bebits here: http://bebits.com/app/4011) - so that should answer the second half of your post.
The main problem with Haiku I believe is the inability for the Haiku VM to handle the load of running a jam build as HUGE as Haiku’s… but I haven’t tried it recently myself.
I did start a project to create a disk image with all the dev tools installed on it - but I haven’t had time lately to really work on that. I will see if I can take a shot at this later this week.
I tried using BeIDE under Haiku earlier this year in hopes that I could use it for the Haiku Rocks video. It was hit and miss – some apps, like HelloWorld, would build. Most would fail miserably and IIRC a couple times BeIDE itself blew up rather spectacularly. While I haven’t tried it since, my guess is that it is either in that state or better. I personally can’t wait until building under Haiku works. :^)