GSOC 2026 : Introduction and hello world task

Programs Google Summer of Code
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Hey everyone, I am Arushi.
Im a second year electronics student.
I have successfully set up the RTEMS7 development environment on my Mac (m4). I faced a few challenges like

  1. the code I had was of version 7 but I was trying to build the tools using version 6 command.
  2. I tried to compile the OS but it told me it wasn’t configured yet, so I created a config.ini file to fix the issue
  3. when I finally tried to run my program, the simulator crashed since the kernel was too large - I used a command line flag -m 512M to add more RAM into the virtual board. Once the board had 512MB the program fit perfectly and booted up.

Now everything is in sync and the hello world task is completed.

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Hi Arushi, can you also attach your patch file as directed by 2.9. GSoC Getting Started — RTEMS User Manual 7.1023b8c (8th January 2026) documentation? And then you can add yoruself to the tracking/2026 · main · RTEMS / Programs / Google Summer of Code · GitLab.

Were you following a guide that suggested you use the rtems6 tools? It looks like you may not have followed our Quick Start guide so I’m curious.