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+<h3>A C library for embedded Linux</h3>
-<TABLE WIDTH=95% CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B>
- uClibc -- a C library for embedded systems
- </font>
- </A></B></BIG>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
+uClibc (aka µClibc/pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for developing
+embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller than the <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library</a>, but nearly
+all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting
+applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the
+source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries and threading. It currently
+runs on <a href="http://kernel.org/">standard Linux</a> and <a
+href="http://www.uclinux.org">MMU-less (also known as µClinux)</a> systems with
+support for alpha, ARM, cris, i386, i960, h8300, m68k, mips/mipsel, PowerPC,
+SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org">uClibc</a> (aka µClibc/pronounced
-yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for developing embedded Linux systems.
-It is much smaller than the
-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library</a>,
-but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with
-uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves
-just recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries
-and threading. It currently runs on <a href="http://kernel.org/">standard Linux</a>
-and <a href="http://www.uclinux.org">MMU-less (also known as µClinux)</a>
-systems with support for alpha, ARM, cris, i386, i960, h8300, m68k, mips/mipsel,
-PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors.
<p>
If you are building an embedded Linux system and you find that
-glibc is eating up too much space, you should consider using
+glibc is eating up too much space, you may want to consider using
uClibc. If you are building a huge fileserver with 12 Terabytes
of storage, then using glibc may make more sense. Unless, for
example, that 12 Terabytes will be Network Attached Storage and
@@ -62,418 +29,77 @@ you plan to burn Linux into the system's firmware...
uClibc is maintained by
<a href="http://www.codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a>
+
+
+<p>
+
+uClibc is maintained by <a href=
+"http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a>
and is licensed under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html">GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
. This license allows you to make closed source commercial applications using
-uClibc (Please consider sharing some of the money you make ;-). You do not need
+uClibc. (Please consider sharing some of the money you make ;-). You do not need
to give away all your source code just because you use uClibc and/or run on Linux.
+See the <a href="FAQ.html">list of Frequently Asked Questions</a> for details.
<p>
-<h3>Mailing List Information</h3>
-
-uClibc has a <a href="/lists/uclibc/">mailing list</a>.<br>
-To subscribe, go and visit
-<a href="http://www.uclibc.org/mailman/listinfo/uclibc">this page</a>.
-
-<p>
-
-<h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
-
-Before asking questions on the uClibc mailing list,
-you might want to take a look at the
-<a href="FAQ.html">list of Frequently Asked Questions</a>
-or
-you might want to search the mailing list archives...
-<form method="GET" action="http://www.google.com/custom">
-<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="uclibc.org">
-<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="uclibc.org">
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-</form>
-
-<h3>Working Applications List</h3>
-
- These days, pretty much everything compiles with uClibc. This
- is a <a href="uClibc-apps.html">list of applications</a> that are known
- to work just fine with uClibc. Since most applications work just
- fine with uClibc, we are especially interested in knowing about any
- applications that either <em>do not compile</em> or <em>do not work</em>
- properly with uClibc. Submissions are welcome!
+<h3>Sponsors</h3>
-
-
-<!-- Begin Latest News section -->
+Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
+support! They have provided money for equipment and
+bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
+consider these fine companies!
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="news">
- <BIG><B>
- Latest News</A>
- </B></BIG>
- </A>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
+ Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms
+ </li>
- <p>
- <li> <b>13 November 2003, uClibc 0.9.23 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.23. Of course, we are somewhat less than pleased that there
- were configuration problems in the previous release that made such it
- necessary to release .23 so quickly. Updated uClibc development systems
- using uClibc 0.9.23 are being built and will be posted shortly. And Erik
- has built Debian stable (woody) for x86 with uClibc and it runs great.
-
- <p>
-
- This release continues to be binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 and
- 0.9.22 -- as long as you pick compatible configuration options. Enabling
- or disabling things like soft-float, locale, wide char support, or changing
- cpu optimizations are all good examples of binary incompatible
- configuration options. If have changed any of those sorts of options (or
- if you are not sure!) you will need to recompile all your applications and
- libraries.
-
- <p>
-
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.23.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>8 November 2003, uClibc 0.9.22 Released</b>
- <br>
-
- CodePoet Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- uClibc 0.9.22. This release has been cooking for a couple of months now
- and is looking quite solid. We have done quite a lot of testing with this
- release and things are looking good. And Erik has built Debian stable
- (woody) for x86 with uClibc and it runs great. Expect that to be released
- in the next few days.
-
- <p>
-
- This release is binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 -- as long as you pick
- compatible configuration options. Enabling or disabling things like
- soft-float, locale, wide char support, or changing cpu optimizations are
- all good examples of binary incompatible configuration options. If have
- changed any of those sorts of options (or if you are not sure!) you will
- need to recompile all your applications and libraries.
-
- <p>
-
- Updated uClibc development systems using uClibc 0.9.22 will be made
- available within a few days. Meanwhile, we invite you to try out uClibc
- with the latest <a href="http://ltp.sourceforge.net/">Linux Test Project
- test suite</a> (you will need to apply a small <a
- href="http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/sources/ltp-testsuite.patch?rev=1.3">patch</a>.
- And also give the latest Perl and Python test suites a try as well.
- If you find any bugs in uClibc, PLEASE let us know!
- <p>
-
- As usual, the
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog">Changelog</a>,
- <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog.full">detailed changelog</a>,
- and <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-0.9.22.tar.bz2">source code for this release</a>
- are available <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
-
- <p>
-
-
- <p>
- <li> <b>30 September 2003, dev systems updated to uClibc 0.9.21+</b>
- <br>
-
- The uClibc development systems for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_mipsel.bz2">mips</a>,
- have been updated to uClibc 0.9.21 (plus all the CVS updates up to
- today). Several problems have been fixed up,
- gcc has been updated to version 3.3.1, binutils was updated to 2.14.90.0.6, and
- <em>tada</em> everything finally works for cross compiling. These were
- all cross compiled (which really makes things faster since the older
- mipsel releases used to take 2 days to build!)
-
- <p>
- These are ~100 MB ext2 filesystems that run natively on the specified
- architecture. They contains all the development software you need to build
- your own uClibc applications, including bash, coreutils, findutils,
- diffutils, patch, sed, ed, flex, bison, file, gawk, tar, grep gdb, strace,
- make, gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, ncurses, zlib, openssl, openssh perl,
- and more. And of course, everything is dynamically linked against uClibc.
- By using a uClibc only system, you can avoid all the painful
- cross-configuration problems that have made using uClibc somewhat painful
- in the past. If you want to quickly get started with testing or using
- uClibc you should give these images a try. You can loop mount and them
- you can chroot into them, you can boot into with using user-mode Linux,
- and you can even 'dd' them to a spare partition and use resize2fs to make
- them fill the drive. Whatever works for you.
-
- <p> If you would like to build your own custom uClibc system, you can
- use <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>, which is
- how these uClibc development systems were created.
- <p>
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>Old News</b>
- <br>
-
- <a href="old-news.html">Click here to read older news</a>.
- <p>
+ <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
+ Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
+ Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
+ development.
+ </li>
</ul>
+If you wish to be a sponsor, or if you have already contributed and would like
+your name added here, email <a href= "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
-<!-- Begin Sponsors section -->
-
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="sponsors"><BIG><B>
- Sponsors
- </A></B></BIG>
-</TD></TR>
-<tr><td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
-
- Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their support! They have
- provided money, equipment, bandwidth, etc. Next time you need help with a
- project, consider these fine companies! Several individuals have also
- contributed (If you have contributed and would like your name added here,
- just email Erik and let him know).
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
- Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
- Embedded open source consulting in Europe.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
- Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc development.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <table CELLSPACING=6 CELLPADDING=6 BORDER=0><tr>
- <td>
- Do you like uClibc? Do you need support? Do you need some features
- added? Then why not help out? We are happy to accept donations
- (such as bandwidth, mirrors sites, and hardware for the various
- architectures). We can also provide support contracts, and implement
- funded feature requests. To contribute, you can either click on the
- Donate image to donate using PayPal, or you can contact Erik at
- <a href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting</a>
- (we have a credit card machine so you can avoid PayPal if you wish).
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- <A NAME="download"><BIG><B>
- Download
- </A></B></BIG>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-<ul>
- <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
- <a href="downloads/">http://www.uclibc.org/downloads</a>
-
- <li> You may want to download uClibc from the closest
- <a href="http://kernel.org/mirrors/">kernel.org mirror site</a>.
- Just pick the closest mirror site, and then go to the
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/">/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/</a>
- directory to download uClibc.
-
- <li> A <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily snapshot of the source</a> is
- available for those wishing to follow uClibc developments, but cannot
- or do not wish to use CVS.
-
- <li> uClibc has a publically <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/uClibc/">browsable CVS tree</a>.
-
- <li> <a href="cvs_anon.html">Anonymous CVS access</a> is available to let you track development.
- <li> <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a> is also available for those that are actively
- contributing.
-</ul>
-
-
-
-<!-- Begin Toolchain section -->
-
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="toolchain"><BIG><B>
- Toolchains
- </A></B></BIG>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-<ul>
-
- <li>Steven J. Hill has kindly provided
- <a href="ftp://ftp.realitydiluted.com/linux/MIPS/toolchains">RPMs and SRPMs</a>
- with toolchains for mips.
-
- <li>You can build your own
- <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/toolchain/">uClibc toolchain</a>
- using these Makefiles which automagically download all the source
- needed code and compile it for you.
-
- <li>uClibc development systems for
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2">i386</a>
- and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_powerpc.bz2">powerpc</a>,
- and
- <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_arm.bz2">arm</a>
- are available and contain complete gcc 3.2.2 toolchains.
-
- <li>You can compile your own uClibc development system using
- <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a>.
-
-</ul>
-
-
-
-<!-- Begin Links section -->
-
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="links">
- <BIG><B>
- Other Open Source C libraries:
- </A>
- </B></BIG>
- </A>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-
-
-I am currently aware of the following open source C libraries.
-
-<ul>
-
-
-<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library (aka glibc)</a>
-<li> <a href="http://www.k9wk.com/cdoc.html">Al's FREE C Runtime Library</a>
-<li><a href="http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/">diet libc </a>
-<li>the <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html">minix</a>
- <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/cgi-bin/raw/pub/minix/2.0.0/src.tar"
- >C library</a>
-<li> <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/">newlib</a>
-<li>and there is a
- <a href="ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/ecos/">C library</a>, for
- <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/">eCos</a> as well.
-
-<ul>
-
-
-
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- Links to other useful stuff
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- </A>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-
-<ul>
-
- <li> <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">The uClibc home page</a>
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/uClibc/">The uClibc CVS tree</a>
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a>
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a>
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://www.uCdot.org/">Embedded Linux Developer Forum</a>
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting</a>
- <p>
-
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