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libkernaux

Auxiliary library for kernel development.

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API

Tips

Create configuration script with ./autogen.sh.

Configure with cross-compiler in $PATH to make without it in $PATH:

./configure \
  --host='i386-elftailix' \
  AR="$(which i386-elftailix-ar)" \
  CC="$(which i386-elftailix-gcc)" \
  RANLIB="$(which i386-elftailix-ranlib)" \
  CFLAGS='-ffreestanding -nostdlib -fno-builtin -fno-stack-protector'

When configuring with cross-compiler you can see the following messages. It's a bug in autoconf, just ignore it.

checking for _Bool... no
checking stdarg.h usability... no
checking stdarg.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to https://github.com/tailix/libkernaux/issues ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
checking for stdarg.h... no
checking stddef.h usability... no
checking stddef.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stddef.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stddef.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to https://github.com/tailix/libkernaux/issues ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
checking for stddef.h... no

To install into specific directory use full path: DESTDIR="$(pwd)/dest" make install instead of DESTDIR=dest make install.

When configured with cross-compiler, library can't be build and installed with just make && sudo make install. Instead use the following commands:

  • make libkernaux.a
  • sudo make install-exec
  • sudo make install-data

Check if compilation targets i386: objdump -d src/arch/i386.o. It should output something like this:

src/arch/i386.o:     file format elf32-i386


Disassembly of section .text:

00000000 <kernaux_arch_i386_hang>:
   0:   fa                    cli
   1:   f4                    hlt
   2:   eb fc                 jmp    0 <kernaux_arch_i386_hang>

00000004 <kernaux_arch_i386_read_cr0>:
   4:   0f 20 c0              mov    %cr0,%eax
   7:   c3                    ret

00000008 <kernaux_arch_i386_read_cr4>:
   8:   0f 20 e0              mov    %cr4,%eax
   b:   c3                    ret

0000000c <kernaux_arch_i386_write_cr0>:
   c:   8b 44 24 04           mov    0x4(%esp),%eax
  10:   0f 22 c0              mov    %eax,%cr0
  13:   c3                    ret

00000014 <kernaux_arch_i386_write_cr3>:
  14:   8b 44 24 04           mov    0x4(%esp),%eax
  18:   0f 22 d8              mov    %eax,%cr3
  1b:   c3                    ret

0000001c <kernaux_arch_i386_write_cr4>:
  1c:   8b 44 24 04           mov    0x4(%esp),%eax
  20:   0f 22 e0              mov    %eax,%cr4
  23:   c3                    ret

Portability

Except GNU/Linux, the library is periodically successfully built (starting with ./autogen.sh) and tested with autoconf, automake, binutils and gcc/clang (depending on what is present) on the following operating systems:

  • FreeBSD 12.2
  • OpenBSD 6.8
  • Minix 3.3.0
  • NetBSD 9.1

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