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Christian Helmuth cb43e04691 ldso: defer execution of static constructors Ldso now does not automatically execute static constructors of the binary and shared libraries the binary depends on. If static construction is required (e.g., if a shared library with constructor is used or a compilation unit contains global statics) the component needs to execute the constructors explicitly in Component::construct() via Genode::Env::exec_static_constructors(). In the case of libc components this is done by the libc startup code (i.e., the Component::construct() implementation in the libc). The loading of shared objects at runtime is not affected by this change and constructors of those objects are executed immediately. Fixes #2332		2017-03-24 16:20:04 +01:00
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doc	tool: remove deprecated 'make prepare' mechanism	2016-03-17 17:02:04 +01:00
include	libc: socket fcntl flags inheritence	2017-03-24 16:19:55 +01:00
lib	libc: add 'max_align_t' type	2017-03-15 13:12:26 +01:00
ports	libc: add 'max_align_t' type	2017-03-15 13:12:26 +01:00
run	Fix some deprecated warnings	2017-03-24 16:20:03 +01:00
src	ldso: defer execution of static constructors	2017-03-24 16:20:04 +01:00
README	README update	2016-08-30 17:24:00 +02:00

README

This directory contains ports of popular 3rd-party software to Genode.


Usage
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The tool './tool/ports/prepare_port' in the toplevel directory automates the
task of downloading and preparing the library source codes. You can select
individual packages that have to be prepared by specifying their base names
(without the version number) as command-line argument. For example, the
following command prepares both the C library and the Freetype library:
! ./tool/ports/prepare_port libc freetype

To compile and link against 3rd-party libraries of the 'libports' repository,
you have to include the repository into the build process by appending it to the
'REPOSITORIES' declaration of your '<build-dir>/etc/build.conf' file.


Under the hood
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For each library, there is a file contained in the 'libports/ports/'
subdirectory. The file is named after the library and contains the
library-specific rules for downloading the source code and installing header
files.


How does 'libports' relate to the other repositories?
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Most libraries hosted in the 'libports' repository expect a complete C library,
which is provided with the 'libc' package. Please do not forget to prepare the
libc package when using any of the other libports packages. The libc, in turn,
depends on the 'os' repository for its back end. Because the 'os' repository is
the home of the dynamic linker, libraries contained in 'libports' are safe to
assume the presence of the dynamic linker and, thus, should be built as shared
libraries.