Earlier this week it was announced on the RetroBSD forum that the official repository had moved to GitHub. Along with the move came changes which fixed previous issues with the build so now it is possible to build a RetroBSD image on Mac OS X.
As covered in the RetroBSD installation document, I installed the required dependencies from MacPorts & used the prebuilt PIC32 toolchain to build RetroBSD.
port install bison byacc flex libelf
The compiler was uncompressed to /usr/local to keep it inline with the code base & reduce the number of changes need to get thing to build.
I’d previously installed the command line tools from within Xcode, while this had installed clang & the rest of the toolchain into /usr, I was missing /usr/include, installing the command line tools manually with xcode-select --install fixed this.
Kernel built from the SVN code base on Google Code:
2.11 BSD Unix for PIC32, revision 892M build 2:
Compiled 2014-03-29 by xxx@xxx:
/xxx/retrobsd/sys/pic32/max32-eth
cpu: 795F512L 80 MHz, bus 80 MHz
oscillator: XT crystal, PLL div 1:2 mult x20
console: tty0 (5,0)
sd0: port SPI2, select pin C14
sd0: type SDHC, size 15339520 kbytes, speed 13 Mbit/sec
phys mem = 128 kbytes
user mem = 96 kbytes
root dev = rd0a (0,1)
root size = 102400 kbytes
swap dev = rd0b (0,2)
swap size = 2048 kbytes
temp0: allocated 30 blocks
/dev/rd0a: 588 files, 8752 used, 93247 free
temp0: released allocation
Starting daemons: update cron
2.11 BSD UNIX (pic32) (console)
Kernel built from the git code base on GitHub:
2.11 BSD Unix for PIC32, revision G38 build 1:
Compiled 2014-04-19 by xxx@xxx:
/xxx/retrobsd/sys/pic32/max32-eth
cpu: 795F512L 80 MHz, bus 80 MHz
oscillator: XT crystal, PLL div 1:2 mult x20
console: tty0 (5,0)
sd0: port SPI2, select pin C14
sd0: type SDHC, size 15339520 kbytes, speed 13 Mbit/sec
phys mem = 128 kbytes
user mem = 96 kbytes
root dev = rd0a (0,1)
root size = 102400 kbytes
swap dev = rd0b (0,2)
swap size = 2048 kbytes
/dev/rd0a: 588 files, 8752 used, 93247 free
Starting daemons: update cron
2.11 BSD UNIX (pic32) (console)