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@klange klange released this 12 Oct 11:53
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v1.6.1
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This is an experimental release specifically focused on ToaruOS Extra.

screenshot from 2018-10-12 20-29-57

GCC 6.4.0

The Extra CD image in this release includes GCC 6.4.0 and should be capable of compiling C applications.

Consider the following demo:

  1. Download the source for Bim: fetch -O http://toaruos.org/bim.c
  2. Compile it with GCC: gcc -o bim bim.c
  3. Edit the downloaded source with the compiled editor: ./bim bim.c

Please note that the size of the ramdisk in this image results in long boot times on QEMU. Additionally, some issues may be experienced in VirtualBox - it is recommend that you use the BIOS loader and supply VirtualBox with 2GB of RAM when using the Extra distribution until these issues are investigated and resolved.

What's New

  • Several new C library functions have been added to support the porting of Binutils and GCC, and some noncompliant functions have been corrected.
  • The behavior of the terminal cursor when on the last column of a row has been fixed. Previously, printing a newline when the cursor was in this position erroneously advanced the line, which was breaking nyancat.
  • Scrollback can now be selected in the terminal, and general behavior of scrollback and text selection has been improved.
  • Improvements have been made to the argument processing of kill and killall.
  • /dev/tty and /dev/pts/{n} have been added, and terminals now have names, as specified in POSIX.
  • The behavior of the VFS when a symlink is the root of a mount has been corrected. Previously, the VFS did not follow these symlinks correctly.
  • ls now correctly lstats arguments, as it does for the contents of directories, so symlinks are shown correctly when given as the direct argument to ls -l.
  • New utilities have been added: basename, logname, tty, strings
  • The behavior of tiled windows in the compositor and default decorator has been adjusted.
  • Improvements and bug fixes have been made to rline_exp, including a notable fix for a crash with Unicode characters in history.
  • The permissions of user home directories on live CDs should now be correct.
  • The default startup app for the compositor is now glogin (this does not affect the normal setup of live CDs).
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