[openbeos] Re: libc

  • From: "Andrew Edward McCall" <mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:43:46 -0800

>> >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

So can we not just try and get NewOS to use that?

Thanks

Andrew Edward McCall
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