Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)

Welcome to Fuchsia! This is a top-level entry point for the project. From here we try to link to everything you need to get started, use, and develop for Fuchsia.

The Fuchsia project is in many Git repositories and we use the jiri tool to make it easier to work with these repositories. jiri uses manifest files to know what repositories to pull. Visit the 'manifest' project to find out how to check out the source.

Before building Fuchsia, you should follow Magenta's instructions from "Preparing the build environment" up through "Configure PATH". It isn't necessary to check out the Magenta and QEMU sources, they are included in the Fuchsia manifest. Note, building QEMU isn't strictly required if you're only developing on actual hardware, but it is a good tool to have at the ready.

First, you need to build the kernel and the sysroot:

./scripts/build-sysroot.sh

Finally, you can build Fuchsia using these commands:

./packages/gn/gen.py
./buildtools/ninja -C out/debug-x86-64

[Googlers only] If you have goma installed, use these alternative commands for faster builds:

./packages/gn/gen.py --goma
./buildtools/ninja -j1000 -C out/debug-x86-64

The gen.py script takes an optional parameter '--target_cpu' to set the target architecture. If not supplied, it defaults to x86-64.

./packages/gn/gen.py --target_cpu=aarch64
./buildtools/ninja -C out/debug-aarch64

You can configure the set of modules that gen.py uses with the --modules argument. After running gen.py once, you can do incremental builds using ninja.

These commands will create an out/debug-{arch}/user.bootfs file. To run the system with this filesystem attached in QEMU, pass the user.bootfs path as the value of the '-x' parameter in Magenta's start command script, for example:

cd magenta
./scripts/run-magenta-x86-64 -x ../out/debug-x86-64/user.bootfs -m 2048
./scripts/run-magenta-arm64 -x ../out/debug-aarch64/user.bootfs -m 2048

If you want a graphical console, add the -g flag. The -m flag sets QEMU's memory size in MB. Adding -N will enable network, but you will need to configure a virtual interface and this is only available under x86_64.

Then, when Fuchsia has booted and started an MXCONSOLE, you can run programs!

For example, to receive deep wisdom, run:

fortune

For applications in /boot/apps you can run 'mojo:<APP_NAME>', for some cool shapes try:

mojo:shapes

You can use the Alt key with function keys to switch MXCONSOLE instances, Alt+F2 to access the second one, for example.

If you're contributing changes, visit the 'manifest' repository documentation for more information about submitting changes.