The whole repository is now buildable with GNU Make Landlock sandboxing. This proves that no Makefile targets exist which touch files other than their declared prerequisites. In order to do this, we had to: 1. Stop code morphing GCC output in package.com and instead run a newly introduced FIXUPOBJ.COM command after GCC invocations. 2. Disable all the crumby Python unit tests that do things like create files in the current directory, or rename() files between folders. This ended up being a lot of tests, but most of them are still ok. 3. Introduce an .UNSANDBOXED variable to GNU Make to disable Landlock. We currently only do this for things like `make tags`. 4. This change deletes some GNU Make code that was preventing the execve() optimization from working. This means it should no longer be necessary in most cases for command invocations to be indirected through the cocmd interpreter. 5. Missing dependencies had to be declared in certain places, in cases where they couldn't be automatically determined by MKDEPS.COM 6. The libcxx header situation has finally been tamed. One of the things that makes this difficult is MKDEPS.COM only wants to consider the first 64kb of a file, in order to go fast. But libcxx likes to have #include lines buried after huge documentation. 7. An .UNVEIL variable has been introduced to GNU Make just in case we ever wish to explicitly specify additional things that need to be whitelisted which aren't strictly prerequisites. This works in a manner similar to the recently introduced .EXTRA_PREREQS feature. There's now a new build/bootstrap/make.com prebuilt binary available. It should no longer be possible to write invalid Makefile code. |
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crt | ||
dns | ||
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fmt | ||
integral | ||
intrin | ||
isystem | ||
linux | ||
log | ||
mem | ||
nexgen32e | ||
nt | ||
rand | ||
runtime | ||
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stdio | ||
str | ||
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sysv | ||
testlib | ||
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unicode | ||
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complex.h | ||
dce.h | ||
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errno.h | ||
inttypes.h | ||
libc.mk | ||
limits.h | ||
literal.h | ||
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macho.internal.h | ||
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macros.internal.h | ||
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README.md | ||
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Cosmopolitan Standard Library
This directory defines static archives defining functions, like
printf()
, mmap()
, win32, etc. Please note that the Cosmopolitan
build configuration doesn't link any C/C++ library dependencies
by default, so you still have the flexibility to choose the one
provided by your system. If you'd prefer Cosmopolitan, just add
$(LIBC)
and $(CRT)
to your linker arguments.
Your library is compromised of many bite-sized static archives. We use the checkdeps tool to guarantee that the contents of the archives are organized in a logical way that's easy to use with or without our makefile infrastructure, since there's no cyclic dependencies.
The Cosmopolitan Library exports only the most stable canonical
system calls for all supported operating systems, regardless of
which platform is used for compilation. We polyfill many of the
APIs, e.g. read()
, write()
so they work consistently everywhere
while other apis, e.g. CreateWindowEx()
, might only work on one
platform, in which case they become no-op functions on others.
Cosmopolitan polyfill wrappers will usually use the dollar sign naming convention, so they may be bypassed when necessary. This same convention is used when multiple implementations of string library and other performance-critical function are provided to allow Cosmopolitan to go fast on both old and newer computers.
We take an approach to configuration that relies heavily on the
compiler's dead code elimination pass (libc/dce.h
). Most of the
code is written so that, for example, folks not wanting support
for OpenBSD can flip a bit in SUPPORT_VECTOR
and that code will
be omitted from the build. The same is true for builds that are
tuned using -march=native
which effectively asks the library to
not include runtime support hooks for x86 processors older than
what you use.
Please note that, unlike Cygwin or MinGW, Cosmopolitan does not achieve broad support by bolting on a POSIX emulation layer. We do nothing more than (in most cases) stateless API translations that get you 90% of the way there in a fast lightweight manner. We therefore can't address some of the subtle differences, such as the nuances of absolute paths on Windows. Our approach could be compared to something more along the lines of, "the Russians just used a pencil to write in space", versus spending millions researching a pen like NASA.