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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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## notes
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### Docker
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this project uses [Dockerfiles][df] to allow for *mostly-reproducible* builds.
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[podman][podman] is used instead of docker, because the official docker software
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is commercial and obnoxious.
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**neither docker nor podman is required for executing the binaries.**
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binaries are to be isolated and extracted from the resulting containers.
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those binaries can then be transferred across platforms, like any other APE.
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[podman]: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-build.1.html
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[df]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/
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in the future, it would be nice to use something
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like what [Void Linux][void] 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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[void]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages
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make no mistake, this project does *not* strive for reproducible builds
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[in any way that nix does.](https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works.html)
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