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libkernaux
==========
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Auxiliary library for kernel development.
Table of contents
-----------------
* [Overview](#libkernaux)
* [Table of contents](#table-of-contents)
* [API](#api)
* [Tips](#tips)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Development](#development)
* [Cross](#cross)
* [Portability](#portability)
* [Discussion](#discussion)
* [Summary](#summary)
* [Pure code size](#pure-code-size)
* [Used header files](#used-header-files)
API
---
* Runtime environment
* [Assertions](/include/kernaux/assert.h)
* [Example](/examples/assert.c)
* [Architecture-specific helpers](/include/kernaux/arch/)
* Device drivers (for debugging only)
* [Serial console](/include/kernaux/console.h)
* Framebuffer *(planned)*
* Algorithms
* [Simple command line parser](/include/kernaux/cmdline.h)
* [Example](/examples/cmdline.c)
* [Page Frame Allocator](/include/kernaux/pfa.h)
* [Example](/examples/pfa.c)
* Data formats
* [Multiboot 2 (GRUB 2) information parser](/include/kernaux/multiboot2.h)
* [ELF utils](/include/kernaux/elf.h) *(work in progress)*
* Utilities
* [Measurement units utils](/include/kernaux/units.h) *(work in progress)*
* [To human](/examples/units_human.c)
* Usual functions
* [libc replacement](/include/kernaux/libc.h)
* `memset`
* `strcpy`
* `strlen`
* [itoa replacement](/include/kernaux/itoa.h) *(work in progress)*
* [printf replacement](/include/kernaux/printf.h) *(work in progress)*
* [printf](/examples/printf.c)
* [printf_va](/examples/printf_va.c)
Tips
----
### Installation
```
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
```
This is just a usual library. You can use most of it's APIs in hosted
environment.
### Development
```
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-assert --enable-null-guard
make
```
You can test with `make check`.
### Cross
Create configuration script with `./autogen.sh`.
Let's assume that your target triplet is `i386-elf`. Configure with
[cross-compiler](https://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler) in `$PATH` to make
without it in `$PATH`:
```
./configure \
--host='i386-elf' \
--enable-libc \
AR="$(which i386-elf-ar)" \
CC="$(which i386-elf-gcc)" \
RANLIB="$(which i386-elf-ranlib)" \
CFLAGS='-ffreestanding -nostdlib -fno-builtin -fno-stack-protector'
```
You can see the following messages. It's
[a bug](https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110393) in **autoconf**, just
ignore it.
```
checking for _Bool... no
checking stdarg.h usability... no
checking stdarg.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stdarg.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to https://github.com/tailix/libkernaux/issues ##
configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
checking for stdarg.h... no
checking stddef.h usability... no
checking stddef.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stddef.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to https://github.com/tailix/libkernaux/issues ##
configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------------------------------- ##
checking for stddef.h... no
```
To install into specific directory use full path:
`DESTDIR="$(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 13.0
* Minix 3.3.0
* NetBSD 9.2
* OpenBSD 7.0
Discussion
----------
* [Topic on OSDev.org forum](https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37958)
* [Thread on r/osdev](https://www.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/k3ueeu/libkernaux_auxiliary_library_for_kernel/)
Summary
-------
This information is updated from time to time.
### Pure code size
`cloc --vcs=git include/ src/`
```
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C 12 236 19 1548
C/C++ Header 14 179 64 597
Assembly 2 7 6 28
make 1 0 0 13
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 29 422 89 2186
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
```
### Used header files
`git grep '#include <' -- include/ src/ | grep -v '#include <kernaux' | awk '{ print $2; }' | sort | uniq`
* `stdarg.h`
* `stdbool.h`
* `stddef.h`