OS Dev on Visual Studio made easy

This is a template project for OS development on Visual Studio. It is based on obos and limine.

I wish I found something like this earlier, so I hope it helps someone else.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio with Linux development workload
• CMake
• WSL
  • A GCC cross-compiler for x86-64-elf (see osdev.org)
  • qemu
  • openssh-server

Getting started

1. Clone this repository with submodules.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jacquwest/osdev-vs-template.git

2. Build limine executable in wsl.

cd osdev-vs-template/limine
make

3. Edit .vs/launch.vs.json to match your configuration. Many macros don't work.

   • configurations[0].customLaunchSetupCommands[0].text
   • configurations[0].remotePrelaunchCommand iso on linux should be in ~/.vs/osdev-vs-template/project-hash/out/build/Linux-GCC-Debug/osdev-vs-template

4. Edit CMakeSettings.json to match your configuration.

   • `configurations[0].variables[0].value

5. Switch target to debug-qemu in Visual Studio and run. Make sure you have a ssh server running on your wsl instance.