Bootstrap

Arch, Fedora and Linux From Scratch (LFS) can be used to bootstrap glaucus. It is recommended to have a minimum of 4 GB of memory and 10 GB of storage space.

Required Packages

• autoconf
• automake
• bash
• binutils
• bison (or byacc)
• booster
• bzip2
• coreutils (or toybox)
• diffutils (or toybox)
• dosfstools
• erofs-utils
• findutils (or toybox)
• flex (or reflex)
• gawk (or mawk)
• gcc
• gettext (or gettext-tiny)
• git
• grep
• gzip (or pigz)
• libcap
• libtool (or slibtool)
• limine
• m4
• make
• patch (or toybox)
• perl
• pkg-config (or pkgconf)
• sed (or toybox)
• tar (or libarchive)
• wget2
• xz
• zlib (or zlib-ng)
• zstd

Steps

• Clone repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/glaucuslinux/glaucus
cd glaucus

• Checkout main branch:

for i in bubble cerata rad s6-boot-scripts; do
  cd $i
  git checkout main
  cd ..
done

• Create symlinks to cerata and src (assuming you are in glaucus/):

sudo mkdir -p \
  /var/cache/rad \
  /var/lib/rad/clusters
sudo ln -fs $PWD/src /var/cache/rad
sudo ln -fs $PWD/cerata /var/lib/rad/clusters

• Provide missing stubs (remove texinfo):

for i in gtkdocize help2man makeinfo po4a texi2dvi; do
  sudo cp -fPp cerata/musl/files/true /usr/bin/$i
done

• Create symlinks to glaucus-configure and glaucus-meson (assuming you are in glaucus/):

sudo ln -fs $PWD/cerata/autoconf/files/glaucus-configure /usr/bin
sudo ln -fs $PWD/cerata/muon/files/glaucus-meson /usr/bin

• Bootstrap toolchain and cross:

cd rad
./rad bootstrap toolchain
./rad bootstrap cross

• Create cross img:

cd bubble
sudo ./img

• Boot via QEMU:

qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -machine q35,accel=kvm \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 4 \
  -m 4G \
  -name glaucus \
  -drive file=glaucus-*.img,format=raw \
  -nic model=e1000 \
  -display gtk,gl=on \
  -vga qxl \
  -rtc base=localtime \
  -bios /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.4m.fd

• Bootstrap native:

rad bootstrap native

• Create native iso:

cd bubble
sudo ./iso