[Coco] Building NitrOS-9 on Mac OS X

[Tormod Volden]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> Holy cow. That was easy. Maybe. Can someone see if I missed anything? Here were my steps, using the Wiki as a guide:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Building_NitrOS9/ <http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/wiki/Building_NitrOS9/>
>
> I did not have the “hg” (Mercurial) command already installed, and I haven’t gotten around to putting fink/homebrew or any of the other stuff on my current Mac install, so I just grabbed the ready-to-go Mac installer:
>
> 1. Download and install Mercurial from  http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads <http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads>
>
> Once installed, that gave me the “hg” command-line tool. Now, I created a temporary directory to work in:
>
> 2. Create working directory in ~/Downloads/CoCo
>
> 3. Open a Terminal window, and “cd ~/Downloads/CoCo”
>
> 4. Download and build lwtools:
>         a. cd ~/Download/CoCo
>         b. hg clone http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/hg/ lwtools
>         c. cd lwtools
>         d. make
>         e. sudo make install (I had to do sudo else the copy to /usr/local/bin would fail)
>
> And this point, I could type “lwasm —usage” and see that it is there.
>
> 5. Download and build toolshed:
>         a. cd ~/Download/CoCo
>         b. hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/toolshed/code toolshed
>         c. cd toolshed
>         d. make -C build/unix install
>
> QUESTION: Mine errors at the end when it’s trying to copy “cocofuse” over. Is this something else I need to install?/
>
> …snip…
> install cocofuse/cocofuse /usr/local/bin
> install: cocofuse/cocofuse: No such file or directory
> make: [install] Error 71 (ignored)
> alsmb:toolshed allenh$

The error is intentionally ignored. cocofuse does not build on Windows
or MacOSX. cocofuse is for accessing files inside a disk image as if
they were part of your computer file tree, a little bit like browsing
zip files inside the file explorer on some systems.

>
> ? I do seem to have “os9” and other commands, but I do not know if I had them from when I originally downloaded and installed last week.

Type "which os9" to see which one is (first) in your path. If it is in
/usr/local/bin type "ls -l /usr/local/bin" to check the timestamps.

>
> 6. Download NitrOS-9 - this one differs from the Wiki:
>         a. cd ~/Downloads/CoCo
>         b. hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9-code
>                 ** Wiki just says “nitros9” but Files page on Sourceforge says “nitros9-code”…?

You can call it whatever you want, it will be the name of your directory.

Tormod

>         c. cd nitros9
>         d. make dsk PORTS=coco3_6309
>
> In a blazing flash of light I had disk images for my 6309 CoCo 3.
>
> My questions are:
>
>         1) cocofuse?
>         2) the “hg” get command for NitrOS-9: what is nitros9 versus nitros9-code?
>
> Amazing. I had put this off since I expected much more of a task.
>
> I will be replicating these steps on a Raspberry Pi next.