2022-09-23 12:00:15 -07:00
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# stargazing
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this repository contains experiments
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in building third-party software against
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[cosmopolitan libc.](https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/)
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the provided scripts produce APEs
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(Actually Portable Executables) that run on
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Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
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**however,** despite *running* on all platforms,
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not every feature is available on every platform.
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cosmopolitan already does a tremendous job at
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polyfilling missing features across platforms,
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but pre-existing software still takes a lot of
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tweaking to before becoming fully functional.
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2022-09-23 12:04:33 -07:00
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## notes
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### Docker
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this project uses Dockerfiles to allow for *mostly-reproducible* builds.
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podman is used to substitute docker because docker is commercial and bloated.
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**neither docker nor podman is required for executing the binaries.**
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binaries are isolated and extracted from the resulting containers.
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those binaries can be transferred across platforms, like any other APE.
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in the future, it would be nice to use something
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like what Void Linux does for its packages,
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which would entirely sidestep the clunkiness
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of Dockerfiles and working with containers.
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this project does *not* strive for reproducible builds in the way
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[that nix does.](https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works.html)
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