How do I Compile XP Source Code

Poet129 · September 26, 2020

I got the source code from 4chan and would like to know how to compile it.

mariushm · September 26, 2020

lol, good luck with that.

Really unlikely that is the whole code, and even if it is, they most likely have customized compilers and makefiles to create multiple versions of the operating systems.. and if you manage to compile something you end up with exe files, not with a DVD image or everything nicely packaged for you and usable.

Sauron · September 26, 2020

1) we can't tell you because that would be illegal

2) we don't know

trag1c · September 26, 2020

This is one of those instances of if you have to ask you're not ready to do it.

I haven't looked into the source code but you're going to need compiler that they used because modern ones most likely will not work for the simple fact that a lot of things have changed with C and C++ since the XP days. At the very least its going to give you thousands of warnings which some may or may not actually be crucial to fix before compiling for expected behavior. Now you're also going to find the project files and an appropriate IDE to read them or you're going to need make files. This all is assuming that its all included in the dump because there is going to be an absolutely massive list of dependencies so if you're missing even one file the entire compile will fail.

Back to project files because the OS it self is more than just a bootable image you also have an extensive list of dynamic and static libs that will also have to compiled separately and then packaged with the OS so that everything else can run. Now you also have many other applications and services that need to be compiled in addition to the kernel.

I probably shouldn't have wasted my time with this writing this long of a post and left it at that very first line but I thought just to give you a little insight on to how far up shit creek you are when trying to compile such thing. I am still leaving out lots of details but as I said I don't want to write a text book worth of text on a forum post.