Make improvements

- Implement openpty()
- Add `--assimilate` flag to APE bootloader
- Restore Linux vDSO clock_gettime() support
- Use `$(APE_NO_MODIFY_SELF)` on more programs
This commit is contained in:
Justine Tunney 2022-05-24 10:19:39 -07:00
parent cef50f2a6b
commit d44ff6ce1f
33 changed files with 600 additions and 251 deletions

View file

@ -28,21 +28,57 @@ printf 'main() { printf("hello world\\n"); }\n' >hello.c
gcc -g -Os -static -nostdlib -nostdinc -fno-pie -no-pie -mno-red-zone \
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -pg -mnop-mcount \
-o hello.com.dbg hello.c -fuse-ld=bfd -Wl,-T,ape.lds \
-include cosmopolitan.h crt.o ape.o cosmopolitan.a
-include cosmopolitan.h crt.o ape-no-modify-self.o cosmopolitan.a
objcopy -S -O binary hello.com.dbg hello.com
```
You now have a portable program. Please note that your APE binary will
assimilate itself as a conventional resident of your platform after the
first run, so it can be fast and efficient for subsequent executions.
You now have a portable program.
```sh
./hello.com
bash -c './hello.com' # zsh/fish workaround (we upstreamed patches)
bash -c './hello.com' # zsh/fish workaround (we patched them in 2021)
```
So if you intend to copy the binary to Windows or Mac then please do
that before you run it, not after.
Since we used the `ape-no-modify-self.o` bootloader (rather than
`ape.o`) your executable will not modify itself when it's run. What
it'll instead do, is extract a 4kb program to `${TMPDIR:-/tmp}` that
maps your program into memory without needing to copy it. It's possible
to install the APE loader systemwide as follows.
```sh
# (1) linux systems that want binfmt_misc
ape/apeinstall.sh
# (2) for linux/freebsd/netbsd/openbsd systems
cp build/bootstrap/ape.elf /usr/bin/ape
# (3) for mac os x systems
cp build/bootstrap/ape.macho /usr/bin/ape
```
If you followed steps (2) and (3) then there's going to be a slight
constant-time startup latency each time you run an APE binary. Your
system might also prevent your APE program from being installed to a
system directory as a setuid binary or a script interpreter. To solve
that, you can use the following flag to turn your binary into the
platform local format (ELF or Mach-O):
```sh
./hello.com --assimilate
```
There's also some other useful flags that get baked into your binary by
default:
```sh
./hello.com --strace
./hello.com --ftrace
```
If you want your `hello.com` program to be much tinier, more on the
order of 16kb rather than 60kb, then all you have to do is use
<https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/cosmopolitan-tiny.zip> instead. See
<https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/download.html>.
### MacOS