[uClibc]Re: Help on mips support of uclibc

Shane Nay shane at minirl.com
Fri Dec 21 03:56:48 UTC 2001


If someone is currently trying to get uClibc working on mipsel, 
please let me know everything that's not working, and I'll see about 
getting it working.  I'm not currently working on mips, but I have 
lots of test machines, and have been re-tracing over my ARM shared 
lib work recently and might be coaxed into doing a quick and dirty 
MIPS port for the shared libs as well.  (It's really not that hard, 
mips assembly is cake compared to some architectures)

Thanks,
Shane Nay.

> Yes and no.  It should compile, and should work for simple static
> compilation.  It is lacking needed architecture specific
> functionality, such as brk, clone, longjmp, vfork, and possible
> fork (if it needs unusual semantics on mips).  See
> uClibc/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386 and uClibc/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm
> for examples of how this stuff is added.  mips also currently
> lacks support for shared libraries.
>
>  -Erik




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