Firstly, sorry to be posting this as it’s bound to be in an FAQ or have been discussed here many times in the past. :oops:
I’ve got R5.0.3 installed and I’d like to build the various Haiku packages so I can have a play with them. I understand that it’s best to have BONE installed first so my first question is - where do I find BONE?
Next, I’ve been reading some of the info regarding the Haiku packages, but is there a step-by-step guide to getting them built and installed?
Thanks in advance
Sorry - ignore this. I’ve tracked down bone 7a (I’m guessing this is the most current version) and I’ve found mahlzeit’s getting started guide so I’ll try this out tonight!
I do, however, reserve the right to post more inane noobie questions here as and when appropriate. 
You can test ready-built packages from the build factory - the link is in a topic in the website team forum I think.
I don’t think BONE is required - in fact Haiku are targetting source/binary compatiblily with plain R5 net_server.
Should work under either I think.
You can test ready-built packages from the build factory - the link is in a topic in the website team forum I think.I don’t think BONE is required - in fact Haiku are targetting source/binary compatiblily with plain R5 net_server.
Should work under either I think.
They are however using a kernelland POSIX compliant networking stack… where have we heard that before?
Finally managed to checkout and build the current source tree! net_server kept falling over (couldn’t find any particular cause/pattern, except that it would happen after roughly 10 minutes). I also started getting ‘bad pipe’ or similar errors so I downloaded and installed BONE 7a - after that it ran through fine.
I built the full tree and had a look at a few of the apps (CD player appears as an empty window on my system?) and I’ll have a further look later this week. Of course, now the Haiku team have announced a move away from CVS I’ll be waiting for the newbie guide to SubVersion!