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uClibc -- a C library for embedded systems
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<a href="http://uclibc.org">uClibc</a> (aka µClibc but pronounced
yew-see-lib-see) is a C library for embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller
then GNU libc, but nearly all applications supported by the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C Library (aka glibc)</a>
also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from
glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source code. uClibc
supports standard Linux systems (such as x86, strongArm, and powerpc), and also
supports <a href="http://www.uclinux.org">MMU-less (also known as µClinux)</a>
systems, such as those based on the Coldfire, dragonball, or arm7tdmi
micro-controllers. If you are building an embedded Linux system, and you fine
the GNU libc is eating up too much space, you should consider using uClibc
instead. If you are working on an older system with limited memory (such as an
oldworld Mac), uClibc may also be useful for you. If you are using a standard
desktop Linux workstation to develop applications for an embedded Linux system,
you can use run uClibc on your workstation while doing development. If you are
trying to build a ultra fast fileserver for your company that has 12 Terabytes
of storage, then you probably want to use glibc...
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uClibc is maintained by
<a href="http://www.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
to give away all your source code just because you use uClibc and/or run on Linux.
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Mailing List
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uClibc has a
<a href="http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/">mailing list</a>.
To subscribe, go and visit
<a href="http://uclibc.org/mailman/listinfo/uclibc">this page</a>.
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Known Working Applications List
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uClibc now has a <a href="http://uclibc.org/uClibc-apps.html">list of applications</a>
that are known to work. Submissions are welcome!
Since most applications work just fine with uClibc, we are especially
interested in knowing about any applications that either do not compile
or do not work properly with uClibc.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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uClibc now has a <a href="http://uclibc.org/FAQ.html">list of Frequently Asked Questions</a>.
You might want to take a look.
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Latest News</A>
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<li> <b>22 December 2001, uClibc 0.9.8 Released!</b>
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After many months of initial development, we are pleased to announce the
release of uClibc 0.9.8. This release should be quite solid, and is very
usable. This also marks a transition from a slow incubation phase to a more
methodical release cycle. For now one, there should be approximately one release
per month.
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You can find the source code for this release
<a href="http://uclibc.org/downloads/">here</a>.
<p> <li> <b>Old News</b>
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<a href="http://uclibc.org/old-news.html">Click here to read older news</a>.
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<li> There is now a script that creates a daily snapshot tarball of uClibc and posts it on
<a href="http://uclibc.org/downloads/uClibc-snapshot.tar.gz">here</a>.
<li> uClibc also has a publically browsable
<a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/uClibc/">CVS tree</a> (this CVS tree is also mirrored onto
<a href="http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/uClibc/">uclibc.org</a> but they are both the same thing).
<li> Anonymous
<a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a> is available, and
<li> For those that are actively contributing there is even
<a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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Do you like uClibc? Do you need support? Do you need some feature
added to uClibc? Then why not help out? We are happy to accept
donations, provide support contracts, and implement funded feature
requests. Additionally, uClibc is looking for corporate sponsors to
assist development, pay for bandwidth, and help with hardware
donations, especially donations of hardware for non-Intel
architectures. Click here to help support uClibc and/or request
features.
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TODO
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Here are a few things on the TODO list:
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<li> Shared library support for all supported architectures.
We now have our own ld.so, but it needs to be ported to
support each architecture.
<li> Shared library support for mmu-less systems. This is
very doable (think of C++ vtables for example), but will
take some work.
<li> Someone (hopefully) needs to volunteer to take the
<a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/test/">LSB Test Suite</a>,
pull out the C library testing stuff, and convert it
(perl script, by hand, I don't care how) into a form
that is usable without having it take over your entire
system (i.e. similar to what is currently in the uClibc
test suite). This will be <em>enormously</em> helpful!
<li> other things as I think of them.
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Other Open Source C libraries:
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<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.
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Links to other useful stuff
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<li> <a href="http://www.uclinux.org/">The uClinux home page</a>.
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<li> <a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/">The uClinux CVS reporitory</a>.
<p>
<li> <a href="http://uclibc.org/">The uClibc home page</a>.
<p>
<li> <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a>.
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<li> <a href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting</a>.
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