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superconfigure
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ahgamut / superconfigure

superconfigure

wrap autotools configure scripts to build with Cosmopolitan Libc

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wrap autotools configure scripts to build with Cosmopolitan Libc

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Observed mentions: 2023-07-13 22:32:56 UTC to 2025-12-24 06:39:51 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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metaist·Dec 24, 2025
Getting your code running cross-platform used to be really tough. Look at all the different architecture + OS combinations you have to support. Justine Tunney came up with Cosmopolitan libc which lets you compile code into a clever zip file that runs on Linux/MacOS/Windows with no changes. aghamut published Superconfigure which compiled python (and many other tools) into a "Cosmopolitan Python" file which runs on all those same OSes. What's better is the repo contains a simple recipe for adding your own files to the zip. https://github.com/ahgamut/superconfigure#adding-to-the-zip-... In 2024, I wrote a post about packaging python apps using Cosmopolitan Python: https://metaist.com/blog/2024/08/packaging-python-with-cosmo... This morphed into a Cosmopolitan Python App that makes Cosmopolitan Python Apps: https://metaist.com/blog/2024/09/co
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smofy-0.1.0.html But it was very limited: it couldn't handle dependencies at all. So I decided to rewrite the whole thing around `uv` (which handles dependencies _very_ well). Along the way, I learned how to emulate parts of the Python CLI from _within_ python: https://metaist.com/blog/2024/09/pythonoid.html I also learned how to emulate uv's style (both in subcommand structure and colored output): https://metaist.com/blog/2025/12/emulating-astral-cli.html And I learned when to limit emulation (in the name of good design) when trying to implement parts of `ls`: https://metaist.com/blog/2025/12/emulating-ls.html There's a surprising number of moving parts, but I'd love to get feedback on what works / could be improved.
In Show HN: Cosmofy – bundle your Python code for Linux/Windows/MacOS
ingenieroariel·Apr 15, 2024
The reality is a bit different, the work on Python 3.6 was checked into the Cosmopolitan repo and I have been able to use it for production workloads that are in pure python. [0] As Cosmopolitan Libc has evolved, it has been possible to compile more software without modifications, and that includes latest Python through a project called superconfigure[1]. Last person who tried to reproduce it from scratch did it last week (granted it too them a few days of solid work) but in the end they ended with a portable binary with Python 3.11.9, brotli, ssl and asyncio for their work related project.[2] [0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party... [1] https://github.com/ahgamut/superconfigure/ [2] https://github.com/croqaz/cpython/
In A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)
ahgamut·Jul 13, 2023
I wrote this post: the title should be "Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables", because it refers to Cosmopolitan Libc and jart's Actually Portable Executable format. With my gcc patch, you can now build software like vim, emacs, ninja, bash, git, gcc etc with Cosmopolitan Libc, via their usual autotools/cmake-style build system. The built executables should run on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and also Windows (although I haven't tested Windows yet.) Here's a list of software I got to build with this technique: https://github.com/ahgamut/superconfigure The superconfigure script is just a wrapper around the usual configure script used to build your software, supplying flags like --enable-static. If you want to build gcc using Cosmopolitan Libc -- try out this repo: https://github.com/ahgamut/musl-cross-make/tree/gc
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In Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables

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