Re: Booter for 9.3 kernel not working
Robert Swindells <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:30:33 +0100
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Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:49:48AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote: >> I was just about to ask about this? it?s somewhat distressing that >> the source code for such a critical portion of the boot process isn?t >> in the source tree. > > Yes, it is bad that it isn't somwhere in a public repository and also > needs an ancient MacOS (upto 8) only toolchain to build - this all > makes improvements very hard. > > We had this thread before and had folks trying to create a local working > build environment for it. There are native tools available, ThinkC and MPW, I have both of them on MacOS 7.5. I think Booter currently needs ThinkC to build.