genode/repos/libports
Sebastian Sumpf 40f31a9050 libc: add message for corrupted allocation on 'free'
In case the meta data (or more) got zeroed upon 'free', print error
message. The offset in the meta data can never be zero. This does not
help on other memory corruptions, but at least gives a hint in the too
much zeroed out case.

issue #4675
2023-05-30 12:03:32 +02:00
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doc tool: remove deprecated 'make prepare' mechanism 2016-03-17 17:02:04 +01:00
include stdcxx/riscv: update to version 12.3.0 2023-05-30 12:03:28 +02:00
lib libports: remove pcre16 2023-05-30 12:03:32 +02:00
ports libports: update ada-runtime .ali files for GCC 12 2023-05-30 12:03:30 +02:00
recipes libports: remove pcre16 2023-05-30 12:03:32 +02:00
run mesa: remove Mesa run scripts 2023-05-30 12:03:31 +02:00
src libc: add message for corrupted allocation on 'free' 2023-05-30 12:03:32 +02:00
README Update README files 2023-03-13 14:32:53 +01:00

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


Usage
-----

The tool './tool/ports/prepare_port' in the toplevel directory automates the
task of downloading and preparing the 3rd-party source codes. One can select
individual ports 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?
-----------------------------------------------------

Most libraries hosted in the 'libports' repository expect a complete C
library, which is provided via the 'libc' port. The libc, in turn, depends on
the 'os' repository for its back end.