Cookbook

Package system of Redox.

This repository contains the system source code and packages inside the recipes folder.

• A recipe can be a software port or system package (they use pkgar or tar.gz formats).

Read this page before porting programs to Redox

In order for this repository to be useful, it must be set up with an environment from the redox repository.

• Recipe Categories
• Package Policy
  • Cross-Compilation
  • Library Linking
  • ABI stability
  • Checksum
  • License
• Testing Area
  • Suggestions for TODOs
• Repository Layout
• TODO

Recipe Categories

The categories inside the recipes folder.

• core - System components
• demos - Programs with demos and examples
• dev - Programs used for development and programming languages, like compilers and dependency managers
• doc - Programs used for documentation
• emulators - Console emulators or compatibility layers
• games - Any kind of game
• graphics - Programs used for graphics processing or production
• gui - Graphical interfaces
• icons - Icon packs
• libs - Software with functions for other softwares, like OpenSSL
• math - Programs used for calculations
• net - Networking tools
• other - Software that can't fit on other categories
• shells - Terminal interpreters and extensions
• sound - Software used for sound processing or production
• tests - Software used to test other softwares
• tools - Text editors, terminal tools and any other kind of tools
• tui - Programs with a terminal user interface
• video - Programs used for video playback, processing and production
• web - World Wide Web browsers and tools
• wip - Software that needs porting or incomplete recipes

Package Policy

Before sending your recipe to upstream (to become a public package), you must follow these rules:

Cross-Compilation

• All recipes must use our cross-compilers, a Cookbook template does this automatically but it's not always possible, study the build system of your program or library to find these options or patch the configuration files.
• Don't hardcode the CPU architecture on the recipe script (this would break the multi-arch support).

Tarballs

• Don't use the auto-generated tarballs from GitHub, they aren't static and don't verify the archive integrity.

Library Linking

• Keep the static linking of libraries to reduce the launch time and improve security.
• If your package is bigger than 50MB, dynamic link big libraries until your package is equal or less than 50MB (to reduce the RAM usage).

ABI stability

• Respect the ABI separation of the libraries, for example, if openssl1 is available and some program need openssl3, you will create a recipe for openssl3 and not rename the openssl1, as it will break the dependent packages.

Checksum

• If your recipe download a tarball, you will need to create a BLAKE3 hash for it. You can learn how to do it here.

License

• Don't package programs or libraries lacking a license.
• Verify if the program has some license violation, in case of doubt ask us on the chat.
• Non-free programs and assets should go to a subcategory of the nonfree category and be approved per license.

Testing Area

Work-in-progress software ports goes to the wip category, be aware of these items during your packaging process:

• A recipe is considered ready if it's mostly working inside of Redox.
• All WIP recipes must have a #TODO on the beginning of the recipe.toml and explain what is missing.
• BLAKE3 hashes for tarballs are optional (quick testing workflow)
• Try to keep the recipe with the latest stable version of the program (the porting process can take months).
• Once the recipe is ready, add the BLAKE3 hash if needed and move the folder to the appropriate category.

Suggestions for TODOs

These TODOs improve the packagers cooperation and understanding.

• not compiled or tested - It means that your recipe is fully configured and don't lack necessary dependencies.
• missing script for x, see insert-the-link-for-build-instructions-here - It means that your recipe is lacking the cross-compilation script for some build system, where x is the build system name. After see you will insert the link for the build instructions of the program or library, it will help other packagers to insert the script for you.
• missing dependencies, see insert-the-link-for-required-dependencies-here - It means that the dependencies = [] section is incomplete.
• probably wrong script, see insert-the-link-for-build-instructions-here - It means that you don't know if your script will work.
• probably wrong template, see insert-the-link-for-build-instructions-here - It means that you don't know if the Cookbook template will work.
• probably missing dependencies, see insert-the-link-for-required-dependencies-here - It means that you don't know if the required dependencies are satisfied.

Other TODOs are specific and won't be covered on this list.

Repository Layout

• .cargo - Cargo configuration.
• bin - LLVM and pkg-config CPU targets.
• recipes - Package configuration files.
• src - Package system source code.

TODO

• Convert old recipes to TOML, see this tracking issue.
• Remove the scripts after full TOML conversion.