Redox is an operating system written in pure Rust, designed to be modular and secure. The development blog can be found at http://www.redox-os.org.

Documentation can be found here.

Please make sure you use the latest nightly of rustc before building (for more troubleshooting, see "Help! Redox won't compile!").

Contents

• What it looks like
• Help! Redox won't compile
• Contributing to Redox
• Cloning, Building and running
• Quick Setup
• Manual Setup

What it looks like

Help! Redox won't compile!

Sometimes things go wrong when compiling. Try the following before opening an issue:

1. Run make clean.
2. Run git clean -X -f -d.
3. Make sure you have the latest version of Rust nightly! (multirust is recommended for managing Rust versions).
4. Update GNU Make, NASM and QEMU/VirtualBox.
5. Pull the upstream master branch (git remote add upstream git@github.com:redox-os/redox.git; git pull upstream master).

and then rebuild!

Contributing to Redox

If you're interested in this project, and you'd like to help us out, here is a list of ways you can do just that.

Cloning, Building, and Running

Redox is big (even compressed)! So cloning Redox takes a lot bandwidth, and (depending on your data plan) can be costly, so clone at your own risk!

Quick Setup

$ cd path/to/your/projects/folder/

# Run bootstrap setup
$ curl -sf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redox-os/redox/master/bootstrap.sh -o bootstrap.sh && bash -e bootstrap.sh

# Build Redox
$ make all

# Launch using QEMU
$ make qemu
# Launch using QEMU without using KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). Try if QEMU gives an error.
$ make qemu kvm=no

Manual Setup

To manually clone, build and run Redox using a Linux host, run the following commands (with exceptions, be sure to read the comments):

$ cd path/to/your/projects/folder/

# HTTPS
$ git clone https://github.com/redox-os/redox.git --origin upstream --recursive
# SSH
$ git clone git@github.com:redox-os/redox.git --origin upstream --recursive

$ cd redox/

# Install/update dependencies
$ sudo <your package manager> install make nasm qemu

# Install multirust
$ curl -sf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brson/multirust/master/blastoff.sh | sh

# Set override toolchain to nightly build
$ multirust override nightly

# Build Redox
$ make all

# Launch using QEMU
$ make qemu
# Launch using QEMU without using KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). Try if QEMU gives an error.
$ make qemu kvm=no