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, s390(x) and loongarch64.
- 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. - 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.
Cross Build
Take riscv64
as example:
- install
qemu-riscv64-static
,gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu
- Cross build:
ARCH=riscv64
TRIPLE=$ARCH-linux-gnu
make ARCH=$ARCH TOOLPREFIX=$TRIPLE- -j
make -C test ARCH=$ARCH TOOLPREFIX=$TRIPLE- -j
- Run test with qemu:
qemu-$ARCH-static -L . -L /usr/$TRIPLE/ test/test-float
qemu-$ARCH-static -L . -L /usr/$TRIPLE/ test/test-double
- Create build directory with
mkdir build
and navigate into it withcd build
. - Run CMake to configure project and generate native build system with
cmake /path/to/openlibm/
or generate project with build system of choice e.g.cmake /path/to/openlib/ -G "MinGW Makefiles"
. - Build with the build system with
cmake --build .
.
Default CMake configuration builds a shared library, this can easily be changed by replacing
the keyword in the add_library()
command in the CMakeLists.txt
.
PowerPC support for openlibm was graciously sponsored by IBM.