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Setting up MSVC++

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:14 am
by michael
Oh while im typing this just a quick (unimportant)note but when using tabbed browsing withon your site I have to keep logging in but, anyway..

Well this is about the "Operating Systems Development - Setting up MSVC++ 2005" tutorial.. I downloaded the demo and tried compiling it on Visual C++ 2005 and it worked.. I copied the new stage2 bootloader onto my disk (It already had the 1st stage one).. And it doesnt load the 3rd stage properly :cry: just reboots.. Am I doing something wrong?.. I know my test machine should be okay I mean its new-ish, x86 and can run XP quite well lol... Ooh and everythings worked uptill now when I try and add c++ into it..

Ive tried countless hours of fiddling but still no luck hmmm.. so yeah.. anyone know what to do lol..

Thanks :D :)

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:17 am
by Mike
Hey,
I downloaded the demo and tried compiling it on Visual C++ 2005 and it worked.
Thats great to hear :)
I copied the new stage2 bootloader onto my disk (It already had the 1st stage one).. And it doesnt load the 3rd stage properly :( just reboots..
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by "new stage2 bootloader"? Also, what "disk"? Floppy disk? A file on your hard drive?

Does it work with your new stage2 bootloader running in Bochs? Or does it reboot ("Triple Fault") in both Bochs and your test computer?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:27 am
by michael
By the new 2nd stage bootloader I mean i ran Demo5\SysBoot\Stage2\build.bat and it worked.. Cuz I noted you had changed Stage2.asm etc..

By disk I mean my great new usb floppy drive =D.. which took forever to order in and then it didnt even go :evil: but thats a different story.. but it works now :D

Umm Ive never gotten Bochs to work on Vista and its all I can get running at the moment...

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:38 am
by Mike
but it works now :D
...Did you manage to get it working? o.0
Umm Ive never gotten Bochs to work on Vista and its all I can get running at the moment...
There is a newer version of Bochs then that listed in the series. I am going to have to see if it is Vista compatible..

You can use other emulators (QEMU is nice) if you cannot get Bochs to work.

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:45 am
by michael
Yeah I got my floppy drive working.. well got a replacement lol.. Itll write all the tutorials that only use nasm and my test machine will boot them all fine.

Just when I boot with the c++ tutorial it loads stage2, prints "Searching for Operating System..." to the screen and then triple faults..

Oh okay.. ill go have a look at them.. I dont really get what point having an emulator is though when ive got the real thing next to me and it takes like 30 seconds to copy onto a disk, boot, and stuff..

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:07 am
by Mike
Oh okay.. ill go have a look at them.. I dont really get what point having an emulator is though when ive got the real thing next to me and it takes like 30 seconds to copy onto a disk, boot, and stuff..
Running this in an emulator is much safer then real hardware. Please see <a href="http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OS ... ">Tutorial 9</a>, Under the section <b>Cautions to look for</b> for more information.

Also, emulators (Like Bochs) may come with debuggers to help catch these problems :)
ust when I boot with the c++ tutorial it loads stage2, prints "Searching for Operating System..." to the screen and then triple faults..
Hm... It sounds like there is a problem loading the kernel, or executing it. When you compile the MSVC++ Kernel, have it output a linker map. This way we can insure the entry point is where it should be, as well as other base addresses.

^This is the only difference between the two tutorials. As the previous version works, I suspect the problem is one of these areas.

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:34 am
by michael
Yeah I know about that.. Though if my computer breaks ive got like 15 more capable of runinng this stuff lol..

Oh but debuggers that sounds usefull :) I hadent realized..

I checked and that was allready set :? I tried compiling exacally with the settings I downloaded it as and it worked.. Oh I had to comment out one line, which I thought was useless?,or it wouldnt work though..

In the file asm\io.cpp it had the line

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 #include <asm> 
And I checked and ALL of the settings in the tutorial you said to do have been done..

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:41 am
by michael
Oh and if this is any help?

1>------ Build started: Project: Kernel, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Compiling...
1>io.cpp
1>mainCRTstartup.cpp
1>cstd.cpp
1>Main.cpp
1>Generating Code...
1>c:\users\michael\os dev\c++\syscore\lib\cstd.cpp(144) : warning C4702: unreachable code
1>Linking...
1>LINK : warning LNK4216: Exported entry point _mainCRTStartup
1> Creating library A:\KRNL.lib and object A:\KRNL.exp
1>A:\KRNL.dll : warning LNK4086: entrypoint '_mainCRTStartup' is not __stdcall with 12 bytes of arguments; image may not run
1>cstd.obj : warning LNK4254: section '.CRT' (40000040) merged into '.data' (C0000040) with different attributes
1>Order.txt : warning LNK4037: '_kmain' does not exist; ignored
1>LINK : warning LNK4096: /BASE value '0x100000' is invalid for Windows 95 and Windows 98; image may not run
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\Michael\OS DEV\c++\SysCore\Kernel\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>Kernel - 0 error(s), 6 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:56 am
by Mike
When you build your MSVC++ Kernel, The linker map should output to Demo5/SysCore/Kernel/Kernel.map - would you mind posting that for us?

Also, you do not need to worry about those warnings.

*Demo5 uses the same file and floppy code as Demo 4. Because Demo4 works fine (I assume), we know the file loading code is working fine. I am suspecting it is the MSVC++ image, but need to make sure.

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:18 am
by michael
Oooh Demo4.. hmm.. Idk if ive ever gotten that to work.. To be honest I actully forgot about it lol..

No Demo4 does not work on mytest computer, it does exacally the same thing :o ..So that means c++ is working fine and its Stage2 thats the problem I guess?..

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:44 am
by Mike
Hmm... Have you tried it on different computers to see what happens? Is your test machine a PC or laptop?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:45 am
by michael
Hmm theyre all in storage.. wait there is one I could try tho... :( cuz im moving house lol... Um its a pc...

Oh but I think Ive found the problem now.. I modified Stage2 to dump the first few hundrend bytes starting at 1MB onto the screen and it turns out its not the kernal wich I found there at all.... it was the stage2 loader :? I have no idea what thats doing there tho.. maybe it loaded the wrong file or something?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:03 pm
by Mike
That is interesting. Perhaps stage2 is loading itself?

Insure Stage 2 is loading KRNL.DLL to 0x100000 (1MB) (or 0xffff:0x10 in seg:offset mode.) Or, in demo4, incure it is loading KRNL.SYS.

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:54 pm
by michael
Yeah thats all set up to do that... :shock: