I've heard reports of interesting trickery using linker scripts, where you just compile to a flat binary and then toss an a.out header on it. Then, from there, a few assembly stubs will probably work to make running programs.
The rest of the work is just reinventing the world, since so much of the code out there is going to depend on libraries that use mmap, curses, select/poll/epoll/io_uring/kqueue/..., and you're probably not going to get far just naively pulling in deps. Quoth Paul Lalonde <[email protected]>: > I've thought of bringing Rust along. It seems to be a thing in the world > I'm finding myself in these days. > The shortest path looks like adding the plan9 calling convention (and > register convention) to LLVM and seeing if we can cross-compile our way to > glory. > But I'm certain I'm missing 100 other related things that will be much > harder. > Paul > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM Danny Wilkins via 9fans <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:31:40AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > The bigger problem is interest -- I don't have perl code I care > > > to run, does anyone else here? > > > > > Technically I have a few perl tools that'd be nice to have on 9front, but > > not nice enough to go through the trouble of porting when I plan on > > rewriting > > them in C anyway. IMO Perl suffers from the 'problem' that you don't really > > write big s Software in it a lot of the time. It's pretty bespoke and that > > niche is handled much better by rc and awk on plan9 (I could easily rewrite > > those perl tools in rc+awk, but I'm not guaranteed to have rc on my > > linuxes.) > > > > Python would probably be the most practical of the 'missing' languagess, > > but > > python was already in base installs for a long time due to hg, wasn't it? > > > > Obviously what needs to push is rust and node so that p9 can be a real > > next gen server platform :) Think of all the apps we could run with > > electron. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf84d656c78bbda91-M6f8d50fa60cf74a1316742b8 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
