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# npe "Native Porting Environment" for 9front, pronounced "nope". *WIP* The project tries to provide a minimalistic (and mostly non-conformant) POSIX environment with several additional libraries (cut-down version of SDL2 from scratch for now) to ease up porting of software to 9front. The goal is to be able to build and run non-native GUI software with very minimal changes, if any. Unlike APE, NPE is fully native and is not trying to hide any of the native Plan 9 APIs. ## Using NPE Clone, run `mk install`. Create a `mkfile` for the software to be built, and set `CFLAGS`: CFLAGS=$CFLAGS -p -I/sys/include/npe -D__plan9__ -D__${objtype}__ By default npe will override the `main` function with its own `threadmain`. If that behaviour isn't desired, add `-D__plan9_keep_main__` to `CFLAGS`. Stack size is set to 256k. With SDL applications Alt+F4 is used to send `SDL_QUIT` event. [General porting guide](http://docs.9front.org/porting).