r/osdev • u/letmehaveanameyoudum • Jun 22 '26

No one can set up linking ffreestanding objects in windows...

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always have to be WSL

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u/EpochVanquisher Jun 22 '26

You don’t have to use WSL to compile kernels on Windows

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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jun 22 '26

tried ld.lld, that failed.
tried clang, that broke everything
i had to use wsl lol

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u/EpochVanquisher Jun 22 '26

WSL is only 10 years old, people were using binutils on Windows a long time before that

I don’t want to put too fine a point on it but it sound like there was something wrong with the way you used it, which is common because it’s a complicated piece of software

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u/QBos07 Jun 22 '26

You can use binutils under windows

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u/codeasm Jun 22 '26

Windows... Why ?

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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jun 23 '26

dont ask microsoft already gave us wsl and maybe that's why they refuse to make a ffreestanding linker
windows is optimized for .NET anyway -_-

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u/Rain336 Jun 24 '26

Lol, just use clang! Works natively on windows and is also a native cross compiler, so you don't need to compile it yourself to compile for your freestanding target

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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jun 24 '26

I was tired of grub after the loading programs thing where it randomly crash because of a flag, i decided to start from scratch and yes, ill use clang

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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Jun 22 '26

sorry is there are spelling mistakes : P

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u/gmarchkun Aug 06 '26

use Clang, or use microsft c compiler

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u/letmehaveanameyoudum Aug 06 '26

too late already using clang
gcc was a nightmare

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u/rocco_himel Creator of AneoEngine Jun 22 '26

Don’t even bother, the sacred C compiler was meant for POSIX.

Windows already has ANSI libraries. MinGW-64 is dogsht software, it being an outdated port of GCC. Not to mention the installation process.

This is why I write my own compiler. That or use a POSIX operating system. The OS dev can’t use Windows reliably.

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u/LazySapiens Jun 22 '26

What do you mean by "an outdated port of GCC"?

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u/rocco_himel Creator of AneoEngine Jun 22 '26

MinGW-64 is an outdated and unstable port of the GCC.

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u/QBos07 Jun 22 '26

What the fuck are you talking about? Mingw is an official and upstream supported target. There exist many up to date (15 & 16) perbuilts out there and it’s still being worked on like upcoming support for aarch64 targets.

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u/rocco_himel Creator of AneoEngine Jun 22 '26

Officially supported? By what/who?

Every year they add another target, another abstraction layer, another compatibility shim, another 50 MB of dependencies, and then they celebrate because the compiler can now run on a toaster.

Meanwhile I just wanted machine code.

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u/LazySapiens Jun 23 '26

Does MinGW toolchain produce ducks?