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OpenSolaris Developer's Reference Guide
The Developers Reference is big. Really, really big. I mean, you just won't believe how vastly,hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
-- Mike Kupfer This document is intended to become a comprehensive document for OpenSolaris developers. Your contributions will complete this initial effort. You can participate inthe documentation community.For now it's hoped you'll find it a useful source of information on building, installing, and changingOpenSolaris. As a navigation note, you can get to any of the sections from the left navigation bar inthe Nevada Development community.
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1 Introduction 
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1.1 Overview 
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1.2 Getting Help 
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1.3 Quick Start 
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1.3.1 Example Environment 
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1.3.1.1 x86 Environment 
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1.3.1.2 SPARC Environment 
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1.3.2 Installing a Binary Distribution 
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1.3.2.1 Installing an OpenSolaris-based Distribution (Solaris Express) 
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1.3.2.2 Installing Required Tools 
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1.3.3 Building ON from Source 
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1.3.3.1 Creating a Source Workspace 
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1.3.3.2 Performing a Basic Build 
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1.3.4 Upgrading to the Latest ON Bits 
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1.3.5 Mini-Projects 
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1.4 Conventions 
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2 Prerequisites 
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2.1 Hardware 
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2.1.1 Development Environment 
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2.1.2 Build Environment 
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2.1.3 Test Environment 
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2.2 Operating Environment Packages 
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2.3 Obtaining and Installing Compilers 
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Example: Installing Studio 10 compilers, installed image 
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Example: Installing Studio 10 compilers, full product 
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2.4 Obtaining and Installing Custom Tools 
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Example: Installing the ON build tools 
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2.5 Environment Variables 
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3 The Source Tree 
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3.1 Retrieving the Sources 
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3.1.1 Obtaining Sources via Tarball 
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3.2 Tour of Your ON Workspace 
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3.2.1 Organization 
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3.2.2 Object Directories 
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3.2.2.1 General Strategy for Kernel Objects 
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3.2.2.2 General Strategy for Command/Library Objects 
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3.2.2.3 Exceptions in cmd and lib 
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3.2.3 Makefile Layout 
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3.2.3.1 Kernel Makefile Layout 
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3.2.3.2 Command Makefile Layout 
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3.2.3.3 Library Makefile Layout 
 
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3.2.4 Makefile Operation 
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3.2.4.1 Kernel Makefile Operation 
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3.2.4.2 Command Makefile Operation 
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3.2.4.3 Library Makefile Operation 
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3.2.5 ISA Dependencies 
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3.2.5.1 ISA-Dependent Commands 
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3.2.5.2 ISA-Dependent Libraries 
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3.2.6 Understanding Kernel Module Installation 
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3.2.7 Finding Sources for a Module 
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3.2.8 Source Files not Included 
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3.3 Using Your Workspace 
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3.3.1 Getting Ready to Work  
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3.3.2 Editing Files 
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3.3.3 Modifying the ON Build System 
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3.3.3.1 Adding a New Kernel Module 
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3.3.3.2 Making a Kernel Module Architecture-Independent 
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3.3.3.3 Adding New Libraries 
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3.4 Keeping Your Workspace in Sync 
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4 Building OpenSolaris 
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4.1 Environment Variables 
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4.2 Using nightly and bldenv 
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4.2.1 Options 
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4.2.2 Using Environment Files 
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4.2.3 Variables 
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4.3 Using Make 
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4.4 Build Products 
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4.4.1 Proto Area 
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4.4.2 BFU Archives 
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4.4.3 Packages 
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5 Installing and Testing ON 
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5.1 Installation Overview 
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5.1.1 Cap-Eye-Install 
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5.1.2 BFU 
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5.1.3 Flag Days and Other Hazards 
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5.2 Using Cap-Eye-Install to Install Kernels 
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5.2.1 Caveats 
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5.2.2 Platform-Specific Information 
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5.3 Using BFU to Install ON 
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5.3.1 Caveats 
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5.3.2 Resolving Conflicts 
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5.3.2.1 Automatic Conflict Resolution 
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5.3.2.2 Manual Conflict Resolution 
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5.3.3 BFU and Zones 
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5.4 Test Suites 
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6 Integration Procedure 
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6.1 Code Review Process 
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6.2 Licensing Requirements 
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7 Best Practices and Requirements 
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7.1 Compatibility and Visibility Constraints 
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7.1.1 Interface Stability Taxonomy 
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7.1.2 Library Considerations 
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7.2 Style Guide 
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