In the last week I’ve tried to make my first SlackBuild script. I’ve decided to start with libcpuid.
libcpuid is a small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction.
Using it, you can:
- get the processor vendor, model, brand string, code name
- get information about CPU features such as: number of cores or logical CPUs, cache sizes, CPU clock
- check if the processor implements a specific instruction set such as the SSE2, 3DNow!
- execute the CPUID and RDTSC instructions (portably!)
- and have this all in your commercial application, without getting into trouble.
It works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, both 32-bit and 64-bit flavours. Compiler support
includes GCC and Microsoft Visual C++ (and compatible, e.g. Intel C++ compiler).
I’ve submitted a .tar.gz to the admin staff of SlackBuilds.org and, after a few days, they have approved it. You can find there all the needed to build your package.
On this site I also provide a modified version of the SlackBuild and the prebuilt packages for x86 and x86_64 architectures. You can find all these files into my “Slackware stuff” section (see on the right).
Just a brief reminder on how to build the package using the SlackBuild script:
Download the .tar.gz containing the SlackBuild script (libcpuid.tar.gz) and the sources (libcpuid-0.2.1.tar.gz in this case).
After having placed the two files in the same directory, open a terminal and place yourself into that directory using the cd command.
Unpack the SlackBuild archive, place the sources into the unpacked folder and enter into that folder:
tar -zxvf libcpuid.tar.gz mv libcpuid-0.2.1.tar.gz libcpuid cd libcpuid
Now, give the execution permissions to the script:
chmod +x libcpuid.SlackBuild
Become super user (you must insert the root password) and then launch the script:
su ./libcpuid.SlackBuild
At the end of the building procedure you will find your package into the /tmp directory.
Now, to install the package give this command:
installpkg /tmp/libcpuid-*.t?z
This command covers all the possible cases, also depending on which SlackBuild script you use. In particular it takes in account of:
- target architecture
- package tag (if any)
- package version
- package format (can be .tgz or .txz)
Ok, if all succeeded, libcpuid is now installed on your system!