From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Sent: 14 July 2010 16:45
To: curl-library_at_Antronics.co.uk; libcurl development
Subject: Re: Porting libcurl to a small, embedded system?

>On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, curl-library_at_Antronics.co.uk wrote:
>
>> I work with small, microcontroller-based embedded systems (eg, ARM
>> Cortex-M3).
>
> That's just an ARM core, not a full system! ;-)

Pedant, eh?! ;-)
I did say microcontroller-*based* - so the Cortex-M3 is the core on which
the system is *based8

>You should in fact even be able to run a full fledged
>linux with such a core if you'd wanted to and have enough memory.

Actually, Cortex-M3 is not well-suited for that - one of the larger ARM
cores would be more appropriate.

>> I'm wondering if it might be practical to port libcurl to such a system?
>> Possibly with no OS ("bare metal"); probably using a 3rd-party TCP/IP
stack.
>>
>> Is there a "porting guide"?
>
> The closest to such a thing is docs/INTERNALS combined with docs/INSTALL.
>
> In short, if you have a somewhat POSIX-compliant tcp/ip stack and you have
other fundamental
> libc functions such as malloc and a few other file descriptor-related
functions you should
> be able to do it. I think.

Thanks - I'll look into it...

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