korziner / superconfigure

wrap autotools configure scripts to build with Cosmopolitan Libc

superconfigure

superconfigure is a collection of programs ported to run as fat binaries using Cosmopolitan Libc. This repository includes build scripts for popular software such as bash, lua, emacs, GNU Coreutils, sed, gcc-11, curl, clang-15, and others. For each of these, the source code is downloaded from the upstream sources, compiled for x86_64 and aarch64, and finally combined into a fat binary using Cosmopolitan Libc's apelink program.

Where can I download the built software?

The Releases page should have the most recent builds of executables in this repo, built via Github Actions.

If you'd like to add your own software build scripts, submit a PR!

How can I build these locally?

The build scripts assume bash/Debian/Ubuntu (you may also need sudo access to setup a /zip folder). You can follow the steps in .github/workflows/release.yml on your machine (see ./.github/scripts/setup for details):

• clone this repository
• create a folder /zip on your system that provides read/write access to everyone
• install necessary build dependencies:
  • qemu to run aarch64 ELF binaries
  • SSL certificates
• clone the cosmopolitan libc repository within this repository
• build the cosmopolitan toolchain by running ./.github/scripts/cosmo

Building the executable collections

You can run any of the shell scripts in ./.github/scripts/build to get a collection of fat binaries

• to build bash, less, find, tree, and GNU coreutils run ./.github/scripts/build/cli
• to build vim, emacs, and nano run ./.github/scripts/build/editor
• to build CPython3.11.4 datasette 1.0.0a6 run ./.github/scripts/build/datasette
• to build the GCC collection for x86_64 run ./.github/scripts/build/x86_64-gcc

you can run ./.github/scripts/collectzip to store all build results in a ZIP file.

Building collections via make

You can build fat binaries using the Makefile as well! After setting up the toolchain, if you want to get the ./.github/scripts/web collection, run

make ARCH=x86_64 web
make ARCH=aarch64 web

the ./.github/scripts/web does a little more than the Makefile (helps with creating the fat binaries, but using the Makefile helps for debugging or just building arch-specific binaries.

Suppose you wanted to build only a specific binary from the Makefile, instead of the whole cli collection:

make ARCH=x86_64 cli/bash-5.2.built.x86_64
make ARCH=aarch64 cli/bash-5.2.built.aarch64

Building individual targets without make

The Makefile aims to handle the dependencies between the various packages that are currently built. If you want to build these individually (and handle building the dependencies manually), you can do the following:

Let's say you wanted to build bash with Cosmopolitan Libc. The steps are:

# assume ./.github/scripts/cosmo has already been run

# build x86_64
source vars/x86_64
cd lib/ncurses-6.4 && superconfigure && cd ../../
cd lib/readline-8.2 && superconfigure && cd ../../
cd cli/bash-5.2 && superconfigure && cd ../../

# build aarch64
source vars/aarch64
cd lib/ncurses-6.4 && superconfigure && cd ../../
cd lib/readline-8.2 && superconfigure && cd ../../
cd cli/bash-5.2 && superconfigure && cd ../../

Then you can use a bash function similar to apelinkpls in the build scripts to create the fat binary.

Adding to the ZIP Store

If you'd like to add new Python scripts or pure-Python packages to the python executables:

mkdir -p ./Lib/site-packages
cd Lib/site-packages
# add your code
cp -r your_script.py
unzip your_lib.whl
cd ../../
zip -r ./python.com Lib/
# test if the package loads
./python.com -c "import your_lib"

A similar process can be followed to add your own vimrc, wgetrc, nanorc etc. to the respective binaries.