nlibc

nlibc is an experimental port of the NetBSD libc (and other basic libs) for Linux.

Whats available?

• support for x86_64
• Optimized functions for x86_64
• The crt* objects from NetBSD
• Malloc and friends (jemalloc)
• argc, argv and envp supported
• BSD extensions

Achievements

• Build and run commands from NetBSD like stat, chmod, kill, uname...

Goals

• Build gcc and other GNU projects
• Build a significant part of the NetBSD userland
• Create a linux distribution using BSDLibC