genode/repos/libports
Johannes Schlatow 07736d1689 test/memcpy: fix optimistic results on Linux
When executed on Linux, the test was impaired by the copy-on-write
optimisation since the source buffer was never initialised. By default,
Linux only maps a zeroed page until the first write access to the page
occurs. Since the source buffer was never written, the corresponding
page was always present in the physically-indexed data cache. In
consequence, the test merely measured write performance (similar to memset).

genodelabs/genode#4454
2022-04-13 08:08:01 +02:00
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doc tool: remove deprecated 'make prepare' mechanism 2016-03-17 17:02:04 +01:00
include vfs/lwip: add missing signal handlers 2022-02-15 10:23:59 +01:00
lib Move lua/moon to genode-world 2022-02-15 10:23:15 +01:00
ports Update expat to version 2.4.6 2022-02-28 11:45:18 +01:00
recipes depot: update recipe hashes 2022-02-28 11:46:35 +01:00
run test/memcpy: fix optimistic results on Linux 2022-04-13 08:08:01 +02:00
src test/memcpy: fix optimistic results on Linux 2022-04-13 08:08:01 +02:00
README README update 2016-08-30 17:24:00 +02:00

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
--------------

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.