More information on the project will
become available soon, along with two portable
(compiler-dependent), header-only libraries that are almost
complete, and which provide information about the host system
(library names are NTAPI, which covers Native API types, structs,
and function typedefs, and PESPECS, which covers the
specifications and format (types and structs) of the PE format).
The idea to make NTAPI and PESPECS available as separate
header-only libraries is to relieve developers who write
applications targeting the Native API and/or the PE format from
the current pain of header-mishmash. If nobody objects, I'll
announce them on the musl list as well.
As for the alternatives: what makes musl the most attractive (in
my opinion, of course), is not only the high quality of its code
and performance, but also its readability. I believe that
the experience of reading the source of a C runtime library should
resemble that of reading a well-written, inspiring textbook, and
musl-libc is the only libc project I found that provided me with
that kind of reading experience.
[Note, however, that provided an appropriate musl-gcc script,
MinGW could still serve as the host build environment, so
fortunately no need to create anything from scratch on that
front...]
By all means(!!), it would be great to obtain help with the
implementation of the various Posix SysCalls/APIs, so the
project's web-page is actually going to include a "sign-up"
sheet:)
Till soon,
Zvi
On 03/14/2013 02:40 PM, LM wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Zvi Gilboa <zg7s@eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
... since you are asking... inspired by musl-libc, I am currently writing a
win32/win64 open-source library that implements/provides POSIX system calls
(see note below). I believe that having a powerful libc with an MIT license
available on Windows would actually be of great value to the open source
community for all possible reasons, but that is of course irrelevant to my
question:)
That is a great idea. Would very much like to hear how this
progresses. Do you have any more information on the project
available?
Don't know if it helps, but Watcom has an Open Source C library.
Don't remember the exact license. Also, I've seen a couple of
projects on Sourceforge that tried to create an alternate C library
for MinGW with more POSIX support. Again, not sure of the licenses.
You might be able to get some coding ideas from some of these projects
if the licenses are suitable. An MIT licensed option on Windows would
be very nice.
I have code for some POSIX functions like fnmatch that I've been using
for various Open Source programs that need it in order to port to
Windows. I do try to find MIT, BSD or other less stringent licenses
than GPL/LGPL when I can. If that would be helpful, let me know.