Hello! I want to make an operating system in C. I have a bootloader made in FASM, but I can't download GCC or DJGPP becuase they get canceled in the middle of the downloads.

I tried using LCC but it spit out tons of errors (and i was just compiling an unedited example.)


So, I was wondering if it would be possible to use something like DevC++ to compile it. I'm not sure if it has a linker though.

Could someone please help?

EDIT: Okay, i fnally got DJGPP to download.

Really sorry about the double post, but I am having problems with the LD linker program...

when i try to link two files called ks.o and kernel.o together, i get an error about the file format ".o" not being recognized.

Has anyone else had thos problem, and how can I fix it?

Just in case you have not noticed... this is an ASM forum. Many here are C/C++ programmers for a living; but there are forums for this also.

As a word of advice get to know your tools. If you like C i guess you should already have a favourite toolchain. If not learn one

Starting an OS is not for newbies... although it looks like the most popular occupation lately It might be a good thing for learning low level stuff but you should be very good in one general programming language first.

Anyway if you have the sources for a certain OS in C (not written by you as I presume) please do respect the tool chain suggested by the author.

And I do suggest that you go on and download gcc, VC, plus whatever C/C++ tools or IDE's you might need.

The error is probaly because you are not using the right makefiles, shell scripts, .BAT or command line options for your linker/compiler and project.

Sorry about posting this here. But it turns out that it won't work by using the ELF format... it has to use COFF. Anyway, that's fixed now.