When looking to port something to a new Operating System, how do you go about finding the Operating System abstractions a program/library depends on?

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  • rcl

    Library to support implementation of language specific ROS Client Libraries.

    • Some ideas I have is to go through the source code of low-level libraries ROS 2 uses such as this one and find all the system calls they make; however, I'm unsure if this is the most systematic and ideal way of going about this? I also did consider potentially running `strace` on a ROS 2 executable; however, this seems like a roundabout way of going about this considering I have direct access to the source code.

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    Core ROS packages

    • Specifically, I'm considering porting ROS 2 which is a meta-OS that runs on Linux to a new OS that is currently unsupported as an educational exercise.

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