Building ELKS

Getting Started

ELKS can be built from source on any modern Linux system. The build system uses standard GNU make tools.

git clone https://github.com/ghaerr/elks.git
cd elks
./build.sh

Requirements

You need a cross-compiler toolchain for ia16 (8086 target). The build script will attempt to download and configure this automatically.

• GCC cross-compiler for ia16-elf target
• GNU Make 3.81 or later
• NASM assembler
• Standard POSIX build tools (bash, sed, awk)