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    libcxx: Add package · 856ea2ba
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    Currently in OpenWrt, there are two libc++: libstdcpp and uClibc++. The
    former is huge and the latter supports only C++98 with some basic support
    for C++11. Those C++ versions seem to be specific to the compiler version
    
    libcxx supports C++11 and above while being much smaller than libstdcpp.
    On mt7621, these are the sizes of the ipks that I get:
    
    libstdcpp: 460786
    libcxx: 182881
    uClibc++:67720
    
    libcxx is faster than uClibc++ and is under active development as part of
    the LLVM project while uClibc++ is effectively dead.
    
    This PR modifies uclibc++.mk to expose the make menuconfig option. Further
    cleanup is beyond the scope of this PR. What that means is, this is not
    used by default.
    
    A g++-libcxx wrapper based on the uClibc++ one was added. Works the same
    way.
    
    Compile tested with all packages that use uclibc++.mk in their Makefiles
    under mipsel_24kc. kismet fails compilation but that package needs to be
    cleaned up and updated.
    
    Runtime tested with gddrescue, gdisk, dcwapd, bonnie++, and aircrack-ng
    on a TP-Link Archer C7v2.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
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    libcxx: Add package
    Rosen Penev authored
    
    Currently in OpenWrt, there are two libc++: libstdcpp and uClibc++. The
    former is huge and the latter supports only C++98 with some basic support
    for C++11. Those C++ versions seem to be specific to the compiler version
    
    libcxx supports C++11 and above while being much smaller than libstdcpp.
    On mt7621, these are the sizes of the ipks that I get:
    
    libstdcpp: 460786
    libcxx: 182881
    uClibc++:67720
    
    libcxx is faster than uClibc++ and is under active development as part of
    the LLVM project while uClibc++ is effectively dead.
    
    This PR modifies uclibc++.mk to expose the make menuconfig option. Further
    cleanup is beyond the scope of this PR. What that means is, this is not
    used by default.
    
    A g++-libcxx wrapper based on the uClibc++ one was added. Works the same
    way.
    
    Compile tested with all packages that use uclibc++.mk in their Makefiles
    under mipsel_24kc. kismet fails compilation but that package needs to be
    cleaned up and updated.
    
    Runtime tested with gddrescue, gdisk, dcwapd, bonnie++, and aircrack-ng
    on a TP-Link Archer C7v2.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>