live-bootstrap
Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process (by fosslinux)
zig-bootstrap
take off every zig (by ziglang)
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| live-bootstrap | zig-bootstrap | |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 8 | |
| 264 | 332 | |
| - | 3.9% | |
| 9.4 | 7.1 | |
| 9 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
live-bootstrap
Posts with mentions or reviews of live-bootstrap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-02.
- Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)
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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
Not using this, but tangentially related is (full disclosure, i am a maintainer of this project) live-bootstrap, which uses about a KB of binary to do a full "Linux from scratch" style thing - read https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part... for all 143 steps you have to go through to get there.
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Saving Knowledge Post-Collapse
Actually you can skip a file system entirely if you do something like stage0 or live-bootstrap https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap
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Every night
See https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap, and https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/parts.rst has all the steps we take.
- Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
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what is the smallest linux system capable of building itself?
live-bootstrap builds a variety of intermediate systems, starting from a <1KB binary seed (kernel excluded). Check parts.rst for a description, it's kinda wild just how many C and C subset compilers get compiled... but the end result is a system with musl and GCC 4.7, from which building the latest GCC is 2 steps away.
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Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (Turing Award Lecture)
There is also live-bootstrap which uses a similar bootstrap chain to Guix (stage0 -> Mes -> tcc -> gcc), but without needing Guile/guix-daemon binaries etc. The whole thing starts with just a 357-byte binary seed (source)!
- Collapsing Internet
- Zig is now self–hosted by default
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GHC blog: Migrating from Make to Hadrian (for packagers)
There's some cool stuff being done in this area. For example, live-bootstrap goes from a tiny, auditable binary seed to a full GNU userland using only source code (and a Linux kernel).
zig-bootstrap
Posts with mentions or reviews of zig-bootstrap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-01.
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Zig for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
if you know what compiler target is used on your pi 2 you can probably get someone to cross compile it for you. https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap This should be reasonably easy to use.
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Compiling Zig with Low RAM (16GB)?
Use Zig Bootstrap, it is easier. And It should work on 16gb.
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compile zig based on llvm-14
you can cross compile for armv7a with zig-bootstrap
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Zig is now self–hosted by default
They have a project for maintaining this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap
- Looking into Zig
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[Discussion] I firmly believe a self hosted compiler is a huge security risk that *should not* be undertaken.
I think that's the purpose of the zig-bootstrap project. By having these dependencies installed: clang, llvm, python3, cmake (notice no zig) you end up with zig compiled.
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Zig 0.8.0 Released!
The current state is that they offer a repo with LLVM and the stage1 (C++) compiler, which should build on any system that can build LLVM (so any system with a modern C++ compiler and build tools). Or you can grab the upstream Zig code and build it against regular LLVM 12 yourself using an existing LLVM 12 clang/etc stack.
- Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes
What are some alternatives?
When comparing live-bootstrap and zig-bootstrap you can also consider the following projects:
nix-ld - Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
guix - Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead
osxcross - Mac OS X cross toolchain for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Android (Termux)
mescc-tools-seed - A place for public review of the posix port of stage0
MacOSX-SDKs - A collection of those pesky SDK folders: MacOSX10.1.5.sdk thru MacOSX11.3.sdk
brainfuck-x86-64 - A brainfuck interpreter written in x86-64 assembly
badger - Keyboard firmware written from scratch using Nim
M2-Planet - The PLAtform NEutral Transpiler
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
rizin - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
tigerbeetle - A distributed financial accounting database designed for mission critical safety and performance. [Moved to: https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle]
live-bootstrap vs nix-ld
zig-bootstrap vs zig
live-bootstrap vs guix
zig-bootstrap vs osxcross
live-bootstrap vs mescc-tools-seed
zig-bootstrap vs MacOSX-SDKs
live-bootstrap vs brainfuck-x86-64
zig-bootstrap vs badger
live-bootstrap vs M2-Planet
zig-bootstrap vs gccrs
live-bootstrap vs rizin
zig-bootstrap vs tigerbeetle