I’m going to chronicle what I’ve installed in order to get things going to develop / test Haiku on Ubuntu.

I had a working build environment on Fedora Core 6, but now that I’ve switched my laptop, and have a demo / presentation this Friday, I figured I’d write this all out so anyone can do it.

Start off by installing the packages you’ll need for development

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install gawk
sudo apt-get install texinfo
sudo apt-get install flex
sudo apt-get install bison

Follow the instructions for getting the source code on the Haiku web site.

Follow the instructions for building and installing Jam from ReadMe.cross-compile in the Haiku subversion repository.

Follow the instructions for building the buildtools from ReadMe.cross-compile.

Follow the instructions to build a haiku image from ReadMe in the Haiku subversion repository. The real quick info is here:

jam -q haiku-image

While that’s taking place, you can Install this very nice QEMU 0.9 build.

Once that’s done, and your haiku build completes…

qemu -M 256 generated/haiku.image

Bam. You’ve got it.

If you want to write the image to an empty partition, that’s pretty easy too…

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