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The system library is a challenge to all those using the computer to
write their own faster and better routines or to bow to the superior
strength and skill of a true master.
--http://www.inner.net/users/cmetz/program-like-a-klingon
diet libc to statically link programs that don't need all the bloat
from glibc.
malloc, printf and scanf contributed from Olaf Dreesen.
To compile:
$ make
make should compile the diet libc itself without warnings. In addition
to the diet libc, the default make target includes t, which is a test
program and probably contains code which produces warnings. You can
safely ignore them.
When make is done, it will have created dietlibc.a in bin-i386 (or
bin-ppc, bin-alpha, bin-sparc, bin-ppc or bin-arm, depending on your
architecture). In that directory you will also find a program called
"diet", which you need to copy in a directory in your $PATH:
# install bin-i386/diet /usr/local/bin
Then you can compile programs by prepending diet to the command line,
i.e.
$ diet gcc -s -Os -pipe -o t t.c
diet is cross-compiler friendly and can also be used like this:
$ diet sparc-linux-gcc -o t t.c
diet will then link against dietlibc.a from bin-sparc, of course.
diet comes with a man page (diet.1), which you can copy to an
appropriate location, too:
# cp diet.1 /usr/local/man/man1
After you compiled the diet libc successfully, I invite you to check out
the embedded utils (http://www.fefe.de/embutils/) and the diet libc
binary repository (ftp://foobar.math.fu-berlin.de/pub/dietlibc/), too.
The embedded utils are small replacements for common utilities like mv,
chown, ls, and even a small tar that can extract tar files. The binary
repository contains a few utilities I linked against the diet libc, for
example gzip, bzip2 and fdisk.
The license for the diet libc is the GNU General Public License, version
2 (as included in the file COPYING).
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