zenithutils

An nth implementation of coreutils / util-linux / chimerautils / busybox / sbase / ubase / plan9base / ...

implements:

• coreutils (ls, cp, uname, ln, chmod, mv, rm, ...)
• util-linux (fdisk, lsblk, lscpu, losetup, mount, ...)
• procps-ng programs and psutils programs (groupped as procutils in Makefile)
• sharutils (shar, uuencode, uudecode)
• find
• iconv
• diff
• grep
• sed
• patch
• su
• which
• gzip
• possible future implementations of awk and bc
• read, time from sh
• strings
• ed (integrated in coreutils in Makefile)
• dos2unix/unix2dos (integrated in coreutils in Makefile)
• portions of shadow (passwdutils in Makefile)

required dependencies:

• a c99 toolchain such as gcc / mingw / Clang+LLVM / tcc... but not visual c
• GNU make
• mkdir+cp commands from coreutils/busybox (yes quite ironic i know...)
• libsodium for 'uuidgen', 'rng' and 'mktemp'
• openpam / linux-pam for 'su'
• zlib / zlib-ng with zlib compat for 'gzip'
• netbsd-curses / ncurses for Linux/*BSD OR pdcurses for Windows
• libicu for iconv

recommended to go along with zenithutils:

• for a more feature-packed environment:

  • onetrueawk (build fails for Windows)
  • bc-gh (build fails for Windows)
  • nq (useful when building large software) (not supported on Windows)
  • libarchive // paxmirabilis (aka. mircpio) (not supported on Windows)
  • mksh (not supported on Windows) // mksh/win32
  • yash (not supported on Windows)

• for bootable linux systems:

  • nyagetty (not supported on Windows)

why ? the alternatives work pretty well.

• Because I wanted a replacement for chimerautils + util-linux on my custom distro im making
• I also wanted a userland that could compile for both Linux and Windows NT without needing Cygwin (akin to busybox-w32) but more complete and more BSD-like
• I learn stuff and I'm bored

compatibility goals (in order of priority):

• Linux with musl, glibc, uclibc-ng, bionic libc (Android) and llvm libc
• Windows 2000+ (x86_64, x86, arm64, arm)
• *BSD
• MacOS (x86_64, arm64)
• Cosmopolitan libc