{ stdenv, fetchurl, buildPackages, lib, fetchpatch, texinfo , # "newlib-nano" is what the official ARM embedded toolchain calls this build # configuration that prioritizes low space usage. We include it as a preset # for embedded projects striving for a similar configuration. nanoizeNewlib ? false }: stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: { pname = "newlib"; version = "4.3.0.20230120"; src = fetchurl { url = "ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz"; sha256 = "sha256-g6Yqma9Z4465sMWO0JLuJNcA//Q6IsA+QzlVET7zUVA="; }; patches = lib.optionals nanoizeNewlib [ # https://bugs.gentoo.org/723756 (fetchpatch { name = "newlib-3.3.0-no-nano-cxx.patch"; url = "https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-libs/newlib/files/newlib-3.3.0-no-nano-cxx.patch?id=9ee5a1cd6f8da6d084b93b3dbd2e8022a147cfbf"; sha256 = "sha256-S3mf7vwrzSMWZIGE+d61UDH+/SK/ao1hTPee1sElgco="; }) ]; depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc texinfo # for makeinfo ]; # newlib expects CC to build for build platform, not host platform preConfigure = '' export CC=cc '' + # newlib tries to disable itself when building for Linux *except* # when native-compiling. Unfortunately the check for "is cross # compiling" was written when newlib was part of GCC and newlib # was built along with GCC (therefore newlib was built to execute # on the targetPlatform, not the hostPlatform). Unfortunately # when newlib was extracted from GCC, this "is cross compiling" # logic was not fixed. So we must disable it. '' substituteInPlace configure --replace 'noconfigdirs target-newlib target-libgloss' 'noconfigdirs' substituteInPlace configure --replace 'cross_only="target-libgloss target-newlib' 'cross_only="' ''; configurePlatforms = [ "build" "target" ]; # flags copied from https://community.arm.com/support-forums/f/compilers-and-libraries-forum/53310/gcc-arm-none-eabi-what-were-the-newlib-compilation-options # sort alphabetically configureFlags = [ "--with-newlib" # The newlib configury uses `host` to refer to the platform # which is being used to compile newlib. Ugh. It does this # because of its history: newlib used to be distributed with and # built as part of gcc. # # To prevent nixpkgs from going insane, this package presents the # "normal" view to the outside world: the binaries in $out will # execute on `stdenv.hostPlatform`. We then fool newlib's build # process into doing the right thing. "--host=${stdenv.targetPlatform.config}" ] ++ (if !nanoizeNewlib then [ "--disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls" "--disable-nls" "--enable-newlib-io-c99-formats" "--enable-newlib-io-long-long" "--enable-newlib-reent-check-verify" "--enable-newlib-register-fini" "--enable-newlib-retargetable-locking" ] else [ "--disable-newlib-fseek-optimization" "--disable-newlib-fvwrite-in-streamio" "--disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls" "--disable-newlib-unbuf-stream-opt" "--disable-newlib-wide-orient" "--disable-nls" "--enable-lite-exit" "--enable-newlib-global-atexit" "--enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io" "--enable-newlib-nano-malloc" "--enable-newlib-reent-check-verify" "--enable-newlib-reent-small" "--enable-newlib-retargetable-locking" ]); dontDisableStatic = true; # apply necessary nano changes from https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu/12.2.rel1/manifest/copy_nano_libraries.sh?rev=4c50be6ccb9c4205a5262a3925317073&hash=1375A7B0A1CD0DB9B9EB0D2B574ADF66 postInstall = lib.optionalString nanoizeNewlib '' mkdir -p $out${finalAttrs.passthru.incdir}/newlib-nano cp $out${finalAttrs.passthru.incdir}/newlib.h $out${finalAttrs.passthru.incdir}/newlib-nano/ ( cd $out${finalAttrs.passthru.libdir} for f in librdimon.a libc.a libg.a; do # Some libraries are only available for specific architectures. # For example, librdimon.a is only available on ARM. [ -f "$f" ] && cp "$f" "''${f%%\.a}_nano.a" done ) '' + ''[ "$(find $out -type f | wc -l)" -gt 0 ] || (echo '$out is empty' 1>&2 && exit 1)''; passthru = { incdir = "/${stdenv.targetPlatform.config}/include"; libdir = "/${stdenv.targetPlatform.config}/lib"; }; meta = with lib; { description = "C library intended for use on embedded systems"; homepage = "https://sourceware.org/newlib/"; # arch has "bsd" while gentoo has "NEWLIB LIBGLOSS GPL-2" while COPYING has "gpl2" # there are 5 copying files in total # COPYING # COPYING.LIB # COPYING.LIBGLOSS # COPYING.NEWLIB # COPYING3 license = licenses.gpl2Plus; }; })