Linking a L4 library with a L4Linux app?

[Christian Helmuth]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:04:50AM +0200, Leon Brits wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:34 +0100, Adam Lackorzynski wrote: 
> > Doing ipc-wait is no problem. It's just e.g. when creating threads one
> > should make sure that Linux won't be using this thread for Linux
> > threads.
> I do not understand your example - can you please elaborate.
> [example code will be great!]
> 
> I am currently looking at "pkg/con/example/linux_stub_lib", it builds a
> Linux library which I assume I can link into a Linux app but it calls
> the function "l4lx_thread_create()" for which I do not seem to find any
> docs. Can you please point me in the right direction to find the info. 

linux_stub_lib is no (L4)Linux application library - it's the in-kernel
equivalent to a Linux kernel module (That's why it's called "library" ;-).
The real code is in "pkg/con/example/linux_stub", which builds a Linux
kernel module for the DROPS console system.

AFAIK doing IPC under L4Linux <= 2.4 is as easy as including
<l4/sys/ipc.h> and calling the IPC bindings. You need no library for that
purpose. The Makefile mode is "mode=l4linux".

Hope it helps
-- 
Christian Helmuth
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