OS14: Organizing Our OS

YouTube Video

In this video, we reorganize the entire project, taking it from cluttered to modular in less than 10 minutes.

Timestamps

• 0:00 Intro, Overview

• 0:25 Running the OS

• 0:43 The Main Changes

• 1:16 Other Minor Changes

• 1:34 Lessons Learned

• 2:40 The (New!) File Tree

• 3:42 Code Diff Walkthrough

• 7:06 Outro

References

• Recursive Make Considered Harmful paper

  • Goes into detail about why you shouldn’t use separate Makefiles for each submodule in your project

• GNU Make Include docs

  • Tell you how to use include in GNU Make, which we use in this video

Other Resources

• Implementing Non-Recursive Make

  • A helpful article

• boilermake

  • Seems to be a boilerplate for Make projects using include

  • Definitely too complicated for me to understand/use, but a helpful reference

Code

• Link to tag

• Diff from previous video