Ciabatta

Ciabatta - An implementation of cross-platform C standard library with the following goals:

• Providing C standard library that fully implements all C features. Some standard libraries lack many features of C11 and C23, like threads.h or aligned_alloc in case of msvcrt.
• Making standard library that is easy to port to other platforms, for example an embedded platform or a custom operating system.
• Allowing applications to debug and step into standard library functions
• Reasonably fast CRT compared to MSVCRT and glibc.
• Extend the possibilities of C standard library with commonly used functionality: implementing POSIX standard (including directories and sockets), capability for unicode processing.

Ciabatta is not binary-compatible with other CRT libraries. That means that any libraries that your project uses have to also be compiled with Ciabatta, otherwise you might run into issues.

Please note that as of today ciabatta is still during development and does not implement many of the features that need to be implemented. Using it at current time is discouraged.

Support

Operating System:

• Windows
• Linux

Processor Architecture:

• x86-64

This library is supposed to be extensible to other platforms, meaning that you can write an OS layer for another OS and use the rest of the CRT functionality.

Building ciabatta

Before proceeding please note that ciabatta can only be compiled and used with clang. It may be able to work with gcc with some minor adjustments but I didn't test.

For executing the script you will need lua and some lua dependencies that you can install with luarocks:

$ luarocks install luafilesystem
$ luarocks install lua-path
$ luarocks install argparse

Building

On linux you can simply run ./build.lua script. On windows you have to run it like lua build.lua. Reference for command-line options:

Usage: build.lua [-h] [-c] [-o] [-r] [-p <platform>] [-l <library>]
       [-t <test>] [--options <options>]
Options:
   -h, --help                Show this help message and exit.
   -c, --clean               Remove all the binaries before recompiling
   -o, --only                Do not compile ciabatta
   -r, --release             Compile the release version (without it will compile everything in debug mode)
   -p --platform <platform>  OS to compile for (linux, windows)
   -l --library <library>    Type of library to compile (static, shared)
   -t --test <test>          Compile a C file and link the library against it
   --options <options>       Additional options to provide to the executable

Usage

Grab the following files into your project's (or any other) directory:

• The ./include folder
• The .lib folder
• (Windows only) The utf8 folder

In order to compile your project with ciabatta see the following sections

Compiling with ciabatta on windows

1. Add the following flags to your compilation command: -nostdlib -I ./include utf8.obj -mfma
2. Link to the following libraries: -l ./lib/ciabatta.lib

Note: The include folder refers to the folder you copied from ciabatta. Set the path to it accordingly.

Compiling with ciabatta on linux

• In case of static linking:
  1. Add the following flags to your compilation command:
     • -nostdlib -static -I ./include
  2. Link to the following libraries
     • ./lib/ciabatta.a
• In case of dynamic linking:
  1. Add the following flags to your compilation command:
     • -nostdlib -no-pie -I ./include
  2. Link to the following libraries:
     • ./lib/ciabatta.so ./lib.ctors.o ./lib.entry.o

Contributing

Pull requests welcome and accepted in any form.

License

See the license file