Libobsd is much like libbsd.
It is an attempt at writing a very similar library with more modern tools and practices to make it easy to port, maintain, and add functions to the library.
Libobsd depends on Meson.
Install Meson, and follow the build instructions:
foo@bar:~/libobsd$ meson setup build
foo@bar:~/libobsd$ meson compile -C buildLinux users will need to install linux-headers. The oldest supported Linux version is Linux 5.9. Older versions are missing the close_range() syscall.
foo@bar:~/libobsd$ meson configure -Dprovide_libbsd=true buildThe compatibility mode installs a libbsd-overlay.pc pkg-config definition which is a symlink to libobsd.pc. It should make projects that find libbsd through pkg-config work if libobsd implements the used functions.
The subproject provides libobsd and libbsd-overlay dependencies and is available in the WrapDB. As the Meson documentation describes, Meson will automatically fallback to the subproject if the dependency is not found in the system.
libbsd_dep = dependency('libbsd-overlay') # libbsd compat
libbsd_dep = dependency('libobsd') # use libobsd exclusivelyWhen used as a subproject, libobsd is linked statically and installs nothing. It
also places a copy of the license at
build/subprojects/libobsd/LICENSE_libobsd.txt. Please distribute it to
comply with terms of the license.
The Windows subproject depends on unix2dos from
dos2unix.
docs/CONTRIBUTING.md contains information about the design of libobsd and pointers to the documentation of the various C implementations the library has been ported to.