Program development for L4Re

[Björn Döbel]

On 11.06.2013 10:57, Rahul Singhal wrote:
> I have recently ported l4 fiasco + l4Re on raspberry pi. I tested the
> port with the sample hello world program and it works fine.Now I want
> to write some of my own programs (C++, C and python) and run it on
> this environment. All I have done as of now is modify the sample hello
> world code a bit and test it. How do I go about doing this and where
> to start from?

If you want to start your own program, it's best to create a new package 
in l4/pkg and implement everything there. To start off with an empty 
application, there is a script that sets up a build-system-compatible 
directory for you:

$> cd l4/pkg
$l4/pkg> mkdir my_pkg
$l4/pkg> cd my_pkg
$l4/pkg/my_pkg> ../../mk/tmp/inst

-> At this point an empty server can be found in 
l4/pkg/my_pkg/server/src. Running "make O=<build dir>" in the package 
will compile everything. And you can adapt the Makefiles to suit your needs.

That's it for C/C++ code. For Python you build the Python package and 
then load it along with your Python programs. To use L4 services from 
Python, you will need to have Python C extensions, which can for 
instance be generated using SWIG (http://www.swig.org).

Bjoern
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