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Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable. Cosmopolitan can be compiled from source on any Linux distro. GNU make needs to be installed beforehand. This is a freestanding hermetic repository that bootstraps using a vendored static gcc9 executable. No further dependencies are required.
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- Runs natively on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD
- Makes C a build-once run-anywhere language
- Doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine
- Reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format
- Cosmopolitan can be compiled from source on any Linux distro
- No further dependencies are required
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