General Category > Building LOS From Source
I've successfully built LOS from source!
jamesdenton:
--- Quote from: AlexTheCat123 on July 09, 2025, 03:20:44 pm ---Sorry for the big delay, but I've finally gotten things ready to go! Just go to the following GitHub repo, and that should give you all the info you need to compile LOS for yourself! And of course let me know if you've got any questions!
https://github.com/alexthecat123/LisaSourceCompilation
Enjoy!
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stepleton:
Wow, thanks for the comprehensive write-up! I thought I'd give it a quick look, but now I've set it aside to peruse later at leisure :-)
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: stepleton on July 09, 2025, 05:27:21 pm ---I thought I'd give it a quick look, but now I've set it aside to peruse later at leisure :-)
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I see what you did there!
sigma7:
--- Quote from: AlexTheCat123 on July 09, 2025, 03:20:44 pm ---Enjoy!
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I'm delighted that it is such a detailed, almost tutorial level description, and I'm very impressed at the amount of work invested; I really did not expect to see success so soon, and expected the accomplishment to require many more contributors. Thank you!
I wonder if we can find a PACKSEG binary on one of the earlier workshop versions... perhaps it is practical to search the DC42 images for clues instead of having to install each one?
AlexTheCat123:
--- Quote from: sigma7 on July 09, 2025, 08:52:05 pm ---I'm delighted that it is such a detailed, almost tutorial level description, and I'm very impressed at the amount of work invested; I really did not expect to see success so soon, and expected the accomplishment to require many more contributors. Thank you!
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Thank you James! It took nearly 6 months from start to finish, but it was a whole lot of fun and I learned way more about the Lisa OS than I could've ever imagined. I always try to write really detailed readmes for anything that I put on my Github, and this was no exception. Making the build process accessible to as many people as possible was one of my top priorities!
--- Quote from: sigma7 on July 09, 2025, 08:52:05 pm ---I wonder if we can find a PACKSEG binary on one of the earlier workshop versions... perhaps it is practical to search the DC42 images for clues instead of having to install each one?
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Hmm, that's actually a good idea. I don't believe that I ever checked Workshop 1.0 to see if it included binaries, although I'm fairly sure that I checked 2.0 (and of course 3.0). One thing that I did check, however, was all the random Lisa images on Bitsavers, and I was able to find two copies in two of the Monitor images. But it seems that they were built using an older executable format that the Workshop can't recognize (and used much older versions of the system libraries too), so I couldn't get them to run on the Workshop after extracting them and moving them over to my Workshop disk image.
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