OSDEV 有 IDE 吗？

Question

Is there any IDE to create operating systems in C/C++/Assembly? If there, please tell me how to setup it for OSDEV or point me to a good tutorial.

Thanks

Answer 1

To my knowledge there really aren't any IDEs specifically geared toward operating systems development, although there are several options available for the languages most commonly used for such work. In general there's not much of a difference between OSDev and any other kind of C/C++/Assembly development, so any ordinary IDE equipped for those languages should suffice. My personal favorite is Eclipse CDT , which, like other Eclipse products, can be extended with plugins for Assembly development, etc.

Some other IDEs worth mentioning are Code::Blocks , CLion , or even command-line text editors like vim and nano . Whatever you are most comfortable with for other C/C++ development should work just fine for OS development.

Where OSDev and ordinary C/C++ development may differ, however, is in the build process. Usually a C/C++ project is compiled into a binary file which is then executed on the machine, while a kernel image will be designed to either function as a mountable boot drive, or be loaded by another bootloader. This requires more than just compilation, and as far as I know, there aren't any IDEs which will immediately support, for example, creating a disk image from compiled code. For this, I recommend GNU make, which can run Makefiles that contain the steps to incrementally build and run your operating system. A good resource for learning about how to write makefiles can be found here , with the official manual serving as extra guidance.

In short, any functional C/C++ IDE will suffice for OS development, while a slightly more complex build system will be required to actually run/test your operating system.

Answer 2

Not exactly. This is why I perfer to use code editors over ides like visual studio (not visual studio code just visual studio) or eclipse IDE unless I want to write java code of course. IDE's tend to try and correct you and try to predict errors for you before you even compile. Since your most likely gonna use assembly and freestanding C or C++ (no libraries) The IDE may try and think ahead of you. Most code editors wouldn't do that.