Native Client provides a cross-platform POSIX like environment. A range of projects from agg to zlib can be ported to run under NaCl. This project captures any NaCl specific build process and patches required to compile these project in one place, allowing them to be gradually up-streamed.

Important: In order to build anything in naclports, you must have NACL_SDK_ROOT defined in your shell environment. This variable should point to your installation of the Native Client SDK. For example,

export NACL_SDK_ROOT=/usr/local/me/native_client_sdk

Note: There is a problem with the patch command line program version 2.6 on Linux systems that produces errors while installing naclports packages. You need to upgrade to patch 2.6.1 (visit this ftp site).

Note to Windows developers: You must use Cygwin to build anything in naclports. From a Cygwin shell, use gmake to build the Native Client executables.