genode/repos/libports
Martin Stein 4d6fcbb8b6 nic_router.inc: automatically count clients
Avoid that the user has to define the number of HTTP/UDP clients manually.
This count is used by the run scripts to generate the expected log output.

Fix #2609
2017-12-21 15:01:54 +01:00
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doc tool: remove deprecated 'make prepare' mechanism 2016-03-17 17:02:04 +01:00
include libports: create libav recipe 2017-12-21 15:01:35 +01:00
lib depot: recipes for api/curl and src/curl 2017-12-21 15:01:43 +01:00
ports Port of libarchive 2017-12-21 15:01:42 +01:00
recipes depot: recipe for src/fetchurl 2017-12-21 15:01:43 +01:00
run nic_router.inc: automatically count clients 2017-12-21 15:01:54 +01:00
src depot: recipe for src/fetchurl 2017-12-21 15:01:43 +01:00
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
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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.