Technical notes

This section contains technical notes on the nature and use of the RISC OS source code. If you are interested in building RISC OS or components therein, you would be wise to read the first few pages listed below:

• Beginner's guide to ROM builds – Also covers building the disc image.
• Developer's guide to RISC OS builds – terminology, structure of the build tree, etc.
• How to build RISC OS – More in-depth information about the build system.
• Builder – Understanding what !Builder is and does
• Build FAQ – common questions answered
• Remote write access to the ROOL CVS repository

• How to port RISC OS to new hardware
• Notes for building RISC OS on the A9Home
• Building RISC OS for the Risc PC

• The RISC OS boot process
• RISC OS 5 USB stack overview
• Acorn Project Codenames
• Kernel notes
• ROM image format

The following documentation comes out of the process we went through when designing and implementing the RISC OS Open web site. It may well be of interest to other web developers, particularly those using Rails.

• Running Rails applications from subdirectories
• The Hub single sign-on mechanism
• Web sites with many Rails applications

The following items are obsolete but are included for historical interest.

• Changes in C Tools Release 20
• The 18th October 2008 Release (Batches One to Five, historical documentation)
• The 26th April 2008 Release (Batches One, Two, Three and Four, historical documentation)
• The 22nd February Release (Batches One, Two and Three, historical documentation)
• The 20th October Release (Batch One and Two, historical documentation)
• The 19th May Release (Batch One, historical documentation)