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Many people joining our project, or just trying out the devkit, are having problems with using Visual Studio Team Explorer with Codeplex. Here are some tips which should get you going.
While we are preparing for a release with full express support, there have been some important changes to the devkit.
We are elminating support for QEMU, and here is why. You can still use QEMU if you want, but you will need to manually configure and run it.
It took a while... but its here.
Update your CodePlex configuration.. Its been upgraded and our server has moved.
We thought it would be this week, but we just hit another roadblock. Hopefully it won't be that big of a detour.
Hopefully most Cosmos users will never need to use our low level debugger, but its a life saver for those of us working on the compiler. It will also be useful for some developers developing deep core conepts such as memory management, threading, and interrupts.
Initial tests with a RAMDisk showed a measureable improvement. Further tests show an even bigger improvement.
We've made great strides to make Cosmos faster to compile. But here is a quick change you can make to speed up building even more.
Here is how to enabled GDB debugging with VMWare for Cosmos.
Important note to VS Express users. Current sources will not work with VS Express. You must use a specific label or changeset.
Our IRC channel has moved to freenode.
MS5 is very close.. Take a look at these....
We are working on setting up a build server with continuous integration. If you want to receive the build reports, you can subsribe to them.
And we think it will blow your mind....
We like Skype, but really hate its group chat feature. IRC had a few issues, but we think we've worked them out. We now have an IRC channel for testing.
Last year we made some changes to speed up the compiler. This required us to port the CIL to X86 translation stages. Unfortunately this port broke a lot of code.
Once you are ready to dig deeper into Cosmos you will need to switch to the Dev Kit. We are working on making this nearly as easy as the User Kit to set up, but for now it requires some manaul steps.
After a long period of silence, we are releasing a new userkit again.