Is it possible to compile Swift for OS X 10.5?

How to compile OS ?

• hi i want to make my own OS. i know thats extremly complicated, so i just want it to be a hello world OS and just display the text "Hello world" i know C++ and i have seen tutorials on hello world Os's but one thing stops me. i can write the code for it to do stuff, but i dont know how to compile it. i know compiling it is not as easy as clicking a button, but idk how i dont know anything about grub or bootloaders or bootstrappers so plz help!

• Answer:

  I know a really good tutorial on making a simple but useable kernel. It's in C, but the concepts should be directly applicable to C++. It has some linker scripts and stuff that will make the kernel at least load right off the bat. Here it is: http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/ I'm also trying to develop a kernel, just so happens. It is pretty tricky, kernel code is about ten times harder to write and debug than normal code just because there is no standard library. It also counts a hundred times more when it doesn't work or goes slowly. Still, it's pretty fun! By the way, that tutorial uses GCC on x86 Linux. There is another one that this one is derived from that has instructions for Windows, and there should be a link from the main page.