A note on platform support

Tinlok, being a native library, needs to be ported to each target it runs on. Whilst a lot of code is shared, libc bindings are specific to each OS and statically linked libraries are specific to each OS+architecture combination.

Supported platforms

These platforms have priority support:

• Linux AMD64 (linuxX64)

• Linux ARM64 (linuxAMD64)

Warning

Tinlok needs relatively new versions of the Linux kernel and glibc for all features. Ensure you are on at least the latest kernel.org LTS (5.4 at time of writing).

• Windows AMD64 (mingwX64)

  • My dev box is Linux, so the default branch may have outdated or broken Windows support; but official releases will have support.

Pending support

These platforms are platforms it would be ideal to support, but can’t for various reasons:

• Linux MIPS(el)32 (linuxMips32)

  • I don’t have any sort of MIPS development board so there’s no way for me to test or develop for these architectures.

• macOS (macosX64, ARM)

  • I don’t have a macOS device, and there are no cross-compilers due to the nature of macOS.

Not gonna happen

These platforms will very likely never be supported:

• JVM

  • Well, duh. You already have the Java standard library.

• JS

  • See above.

• iOS/tvOS/watchOS

  • Just use Swift or Obj-C. It’s practically what K/N has been designed for.

• Android native

• 32-bit platforms