- Fix build flakes - Polyfill SIGWINCH on Windows - Fix an execve issue on Windows - Make strerror show more information - Improve cmd.exe setup/teardown on Windows - Support bracketed paste mode in Blinkenlights - Show keyboard shortcuts in Blinkenlights status bar - Fixed copy_file_range() and copyfile() w/ zip filesystem - Size optimize GetDosArgv() to keep life.com 12kb in size - Improve Blinkenlights ability to load weird ELF executables - Fix program_executable_name and add GetInterpreterExecutableName - Make Python in tiny mode fail better if docstrings are requested - Update Python test exclusions in tiny* modes such as tinylinux - Add bulletproof unbreakable kprintf() troubleshooting function - Remove "oldskool" keyword from ape.S for virus scanners - Fix issue that caused backtraces to not print sometimes - Improve Blinkenlights serial uart character i/o - Make clock_gettime() not clobber errno on xnu - Improve sha256 cpuid check for old computers - Integrate some bestline linenoise fixes - Show runit process names better in htop - Remove SIGPIPE from ShowCrashReports() - Make realpath() not clobber errno - Avoid attaching GDB on non-Linux - Improve img.com example |
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Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.
Background
For an introduction to this project, please read the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε blog post and cosmopolitan libc website. We also have API documentation.
Getting Started
If you're doing your development work on Linux or BSD then you need just five files to get started. Here's what you do on Linux:
wget https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/cosmopolitan-amalgamation-1.0.zip
unzip cosmopolitan-amalgamation-1.0.zip
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
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.
./hello.com
bash -c './hello.com' # zsh/fish workaround (we upstreamed patches)
So if you intend to copy the binary to Windows or Mac then please do that before you run it, not after.
MacOS
If you're developing on MacOS you can install the GNU compiler collection for x86_64-elf via homebrew:
brew install x86_64-elf-gcc
Then in the above scripts just replace gcc
and objcopy
with
x86_64-elf-gcc
and x86_64-elf-objcopy
to compile your APE binary.
Windows
If you're developing on Windows then you need to download an x86_64-pc-linux-gnu toolchain beforehand. See the Compiling on Windows tutorial. It's needed because the ELF object format is what makes universal binaries possible.
Source Builds
Cosmopolitan can be compiled from source on any Linux distro. GNU make needs to be installed beforehand. This is a freestanding hermetic repository that bootstraps using a vendored static gcc9 executable. No further dependencies are required.
wget https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/cosmopolitan-1.0.tar.gz
tar xf cosmopolitan-1.0.tar.gz # see releases page
cd cosmopolitan
make -j16
o//examples/hello.com
find o -name \*.com | xargs ls -rShal | less
Support Vector
Platform | Min Version | Circa |
---|---|---|
AMD | K8 Venus | 2005 |
Intel | Core | 2006 |
New Technology | Vista | 2006 |
GNU/Systemd | 2.6.18 | 2007 |
XNU's Not UNIX! | 15.6 | 2018 |
FreeBSD | 12 | 2018 |
OpenBSD | 6.4 | 2018 |
NetBSD | 9.1 | 2020 |
GNU Make | 4.0 | 2015 |