Re: [MirageOS-devel] Compiling C components for mirage-xen

["Daniel J Williams" <djwillia@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11 January 2016 at 09:06, Tim Cuthbertson <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On 10 January 2016 at 10:15, Tim Cuthbertson <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>> On 8 January 2016 at 11:19, Tim Cuthbertson <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>>>>  - I don't really know what the thing I'm doing is. Is mirage-xen a
> >>>>>> different architecture? A different ABI? Do C libraries need to be
> >>>>>> cross-compiled, or just compiled with particular flags so that they'll
> >>>>>> work on xen-minios instead of gnu/linux?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> C libraries need to be compiled with different headers and flags (in
> >>>>> particular, -mno-red-zone). Using libraries compiled for Linux will
> >>>>> often appear to work, but may fail when interrupts occur, so the build
> >>>>> makes it hard to use them by accident.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However, OCaml binaries can be shared (ocamlopt doesn't use a red zone
> >>>>> and the OCaml ABI is the same).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>  - The existing scripts seem to be pretty ad-hoc - zarith gets away
> >>>>>> mainly with particular CFLAGS
> >>>>>> (https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/blob/master/
> packages/zarith-xen/zarith-xen.1.4/files/mirage-install.sh),
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's using pkg-config to get the important flags. The others are
> >>>>> optimisations (except -fno-builtin, which is either not needed or
> >>>>> should be supplied by Mini-OS).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> while gmp looks like a full cross-compilation using `--target` (and
> >>>>>> then does some other sneaky things).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> safepass uses OASIS for its build system, which doesn't seem to have
> >>>>>> any cross-compilation functionality built in as far as I could tell.
> >>>>>> Can anyone give me pointers on what I'd need to do to safepass' build
> >>>>>> scripts to get this working in mirage-xen, or at the least some
> >>>>>> clarification on why it doesn't work as-is and how cross compilation
> >>>>>> works for C libraries used in mirage-xen?


> > Correct: Mirage on Xen does not use shared libraries. I don't know how
> > to prevent them from being built. The easiest option might be to
> > remove the uses of errno from the library (it doesn't look like the
> > OCaml bindings do anything with it anyway).
>
> The ocaml bindings (bcrypt_stub.c) doesn't, but the C code compiled
> with it (crypt_blowfish.c) does, so I can't just remove it sadly.
>
> So this is a bit ridiculous, but I did manage to get it compiling with
> the following hack in the build script:
>
>   mkdir fake_libc
>   echo '"fake_libc": -traverse' >> _tags
>   touch fake_libc/libc.c
>   gcc -shared -nostdlib -o fake_libc/libc.so fake_libc/libc.c
>
> (and also added -L$PWD/fake_libc to oasis' CCLib field)
>

I'm not sure if this will help, but I thought I'd share my
"workaround" for compiling C files from Mirage components to link
against Solo5(https://github.com/djwillia/solo5/tree/mirage), which
you can think of as a layer like Mini-OS.

The ability to send flags to C programs from OASIS seems a bit limited
to me: I would have liked to specify the cross compiler, but I'm not
sure if that's possible.  I don't really know what the right way to do
this is, but I ended up adding a lot of CFLAGS from the kernel build:

    CCOpt: -ffreestanding -mcmodel=large -mno-red-zone -mno-3dnow \
           -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -D__SOLO5__       \
           -fno-PIC -g   -I/home/solo5/solo5/kernel

( see https://github.com/djwillia/mirage-block-solo5/blob/solo5/_oasis#L17 )

Then I link against the resulting libmirage_block_solo5_stubs.a and
all of the static libraries listed out from e.g., `pkg-config --static
--libs mirage-xen`

Dan

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