Replace third-party build tools

Author: klangeCreated Nov 2, 2018Updated Aug 23, 2026

[ ] genext2fs - which has always been annoying for a lot of users. Either with our own ext2 filesystem generator (which would help improve / fix our ext2 write support) or with our own in-house filesystem. How about tar?
tar - We have an extractor, we need an archiver. We also need a gzip compressor.
xorriso - ISO9660 isn't too complicated - we already read it - but the integrated FAT stuff is a bit trickier. Ideally, we can kill two birds with one stone and replace xorriso and mtools with a "hybrid ISO-FAT generator".
mtools - see above
make - more of a long-term goal
python - easy enough to replace the handful of scripts with a C tool we compile locally
gnu-efi - mostly headers
GNU ld - we have all the parts we need to write a linker, between the kernel and ld.so...
GNU as - see the toaru-cc project
gcc - see the toaru-cc project

Source: klange/toaruos