Building Linux from scratch

Building Linux from scratch

This is a guide on how to build an entire linux system from scratch.

Prerequisites: Linux installation on same architecture as the one you want to build Linux from scratch for. A working version of GCC. Files needed for guide

Using the guide: All steps have to be followed in the order they are for the program dependencies to work. However after finishing the building of the tools, you can add more tools yourself.

Building tools (stage 1)

• Creating build directory
• Installing Kernel libraries
• Installing libcap, glibc
• Installing libelf, MPC, GMP, MPFR, GCC

Building tools (stage 2)

• Recompiling

Building tools (stage 3)

• Installing zlib, binutils
• Installing M4, ncurses, bash
• Installing attr, coreutils

Testing new environment

• Trying tools in clean environment

Building tools (stage 3 cont.)

• Installing tar, pcre, grep
• Installing gzip, bzip2, xz, make
• Installing sed, findutils, gawk, util-linux

• Installing patch, ncurses, nano, diffutils
• Installing gdbm, db, perl

Finishing building the tools

• Installing the rest

Building from new environment

• Building from the new environment
• Configuring the new environment
• Building the kernel