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gcc busybox
81 9
8,620 1,503
2.2% 2.4%
9.9 1.7
7 days ago 3 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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gcc

Posts with mentions or reviews of gcc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.

busybox

Posts with mentions or reviews of busybox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.
  • Everything I wish I knew when learning C
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2022
    More Good projects to learn from:

      - Busybox (https://github.com/mirror/busybox)
  • what are some tiny c programs I can play about with?
    3 projects | /r/cprogramming | 8 Nov 2022
    Also, it's barebones POSIX, and not the Linux extensions you commonly think of. But, that means the processes are a lot simpler, and the code is often less complex. So it's a good place for a beginner to dip into to see how .e.g mv works, compared to GNU mv.
  • Looking for a simpler version of BusyBox for educational purposes
    4 projects | /r/linux_programming | 3 Nov 2022
    Sure... There are symlinks in the installation, and there's a small main() function that dispatches execution to the appropriate function based on argv[0], but that doesn't significantly impact the C implementation of each individual tool. Those seem pretty straightforward, to me. A developer reading.. e.g. chmod.c isn't going to see any evidence of symlinks, and minimal impact from the external main() function.
  • Any good resources on making a C implementation of the Unix ls command?
    5 projects | /r/C_Programming | 1 Nov 2022
    BusyBox: https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/coreutils/ls.c
  • /* Act like "true" by default; false.c overrides this. */
    3 projects | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 21 Oct 2022
    true false
  • ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2022
    Ok here is my followup. I didn't go into detail about kea hooks [0] because I didn't write any kea hook before, but from what I can tell it should cover all your needs. You have to write c code which I find absurd tbh, but if it has the functionality you are looking for it could be a solution.

    I already posted my dnsmasq "solution" so I will skip this. If you want a code example I could whip you one up.

    Then there is coredhcp [1] and you can write plugins written in go for it.

    From time to time some hobby dhcp server pop up, but most fade away since (I guess) the existing solutions are "good enough". I for instance implement a automatic provisioning and configurating dhcp setup with tftp and pxe boot using dnsmasq. It automatically creates pxe configs based on the mac address and some other stuff (tm). Kea seemed overkill for this usecase and I'm quite happy with what I got.

    Your use case of automatically fixing hostnames through ISC seems a bit overkill to me as well to be frank. My home network has a few VLANs and every device in it is managed manually. It's a one time setup and most automation is unnecessary (and some devices in my network flatout ignore some dhcp options....). Aaaaanyway I still think that most dhcp servers out there support some form of scripting (heck even udhcpcd has a lease notify script that could be hacked to offer some of that functionality even though this gets only executed after the fact so a bit useless [2]).

    > oh wait, I wonder how much ISC was paid … to do exactly this EOL … by these major ISPs?

    I don't know. Nothing?

    > Plausible future: I can envision a special DHCP vendor-specific OPTION to use time-based blockchain hash to further solidify their hold.

    Reading your cynic banter I'm quite happy of not having your DHCP problems. Looking through your github repositories I can find a bunch of configuration files for dhclient, but not much in form of ISC configs (only the nintendo fix you posted in your first post). Would be really interested in your setup.

    [0] https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/hooks.html

    [1] https://github.com/coredhcp/coredhcp

    [2] https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/examples/udhcp...

  • A Little Story About the `Yes` Unix Command
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gcc and busybox you can also consider the following projects:

CMake - Mirror of CMake upstream repository

u-boot - "Das U-Boot" Source Tree

rtl8192eu-linux-driver - Drivers for the rtl8192eu chipset for wireless adapters (D-Link DWA-131 rev E1 included!)

llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

hush - Hush is a unix shell based on the Lua programming language

coreutils - upstream mirror

STL - MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library.

cobol-on-wheelchair - Micro web-framework for COBOL

qemu

python-imphook - Simple and clear import hooks for Python - import anything as if it were a Python module

busybox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux - private tree

rtl8192eu-linux - Realtek rtl8192eu official Linux driver, versions: 5.2.19.1 (master), 5.6.3.1, 5.6.4 and 5.11.2.1 (default)