[openbeos] Re: libc

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:46:24 -0600

> >geist said on irc the other night that getting a proper libc was on 
> > his 
> list
> >of things to do.  He said he thought he might just end up using an 
> existing
> >library as it was a big job to write one from scratch...
> >
> >The newos website explains how to and I managed to get it built/
> > working 
> in
> >about 20 minutes!
> >
> >david
> >
> >> Where do I download libc from?
> >> I was talking to someone on IRC last night (geist),
> >> regarding working on libc for newos,
> >> and couldn't log on to the suggested server.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help.
> >>
> >> Peter
> 
> Whats the BeOS equivilent? I am pretty new to deep BeOS internals, so 
> I 
> would guess its one of these:
> 
> libbe.so
> libroot.so
> libstdc++.r4.so
> 
> What effects will it have using an existing one on BeOS, other than 
> speed. Surley BeOS's native one will be heavily threaded, and an 
> existing one won't.

libroot.so, which, for the nth time is open source. All of it. The 
slashdotters forced Be to make it OSS, and it was on Be's FTP site.
-Nathan


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