Re: VSTa under a386

[mirian@cosmic.com (Mirian Crzig Lennox) writes:]

>One thing I am looking into is possibly porting VSTa to run
>under a386. From its webpage (http://a386.nocrew.org):
>
> a386 is a C programming library which provides a virtual machine. The
> virtual machine is an abstraction of an Intel 386 running in protected
> mode. Functions in the library corresponds to privileged instructions
> of a CPU and access to hardware. The intended use for the library is
> to serve as a minimal hardware abstraction layer for operating system
> research.
>
>The benefit of a386 is that, with a simple recompile, it is possible to
>run the same operating system kernel code either on the bare metal, or
>as a process under a host operating system, providing a friendlier
>environment to debug code and test new features.
>
>What I'm hung up on now is trying to cross-compile the VSTa kernel tree
>under Linux. Has anyone ever tried this? It doesn't seem to be as
>simple as merely running the make.

It should very nearly be as simple as running make. You'll want to use a
cross compiler (VSTa is a known target for the GNU tools), not your native
(ELF) tool chain. Otherwise I can't think of anything major to get in your
way.

Andy Valencia
Received on Thu Jul 27 06:30:51 2000