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Building SWEB under Mac OS

In order to build SWEB under Mac OS you need a cross compiler. We recommend you follow the instructions at https://github.com/GhostLyrics/homebrew-sweb.


This is not the recommended method for the operating systems course! If you really feel you have to build SWEB under Mac OS, do so, but in case you run into troubles and need our help, expect answers like “try compiling under Linux”.

Running CMake

Create a folder for the binary an object files (/tmp/sweb for example).

On all operating systems, we recommend installing a RAM drive and placing the binary folder on the RAM drive to avoid frequent writes to your hard disk or solid state disk.

Run CMake as follows: cmake /path/to/sweb

Now you can run make and make qemu.

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