OpenLibm is an effort to have a high quality, portable, standalone
C mathematical library (libm
).
It can be used standalone in applications and programming language
implementations.
The project was born out of a need to have a good libm
for the
Julia programming language that worked
consistently across compilers and operating systems, and in 32-bit and
64-bit environments.
OpenLibm builds on Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. It builds with both GCC and clang. Although largely tested and widely used on the x86 and x86-64 architectures, OpenLibm also supports arm, aarch64, ppc64le, mips, wasm32, riscv, and s390(x).
- Use GNU Make to build OpenLibm. This is
make
on most systems, butgmake
on BSDs. - Use
make USEGCC=1
to build with GCC. This is the default on Linux and Windows. - Use
make USECLANG=1
to build with clang. This is the default on OS X, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. - Use
make ARCH=wasm32
to build the wasm32 library with clang. Requires clang-8. - Architectures are auto-detected. Use
make ARCH=i386
to force a build for i386. Other supported architectures are i486, i586, and i686. GCC 4.8 is the minimum requirement for correct codegen on older 32-bit architectures.
PowerPC support for openlibm was graciously sponsored by IBM.