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Bare Platform Support


Tier 1 — Prebuilds, CI-tested

Failures block CI. Prebuilt binaries provided via npm.

Platform Architectures Minimum Version
Linux arm64, x64 >= 5.15, glibc >= 2.35
Android arm, arm64, ia32, x64 >= 10
macOS arm64, x64 >= 12.0
iOS arm64, x64 (simulator) >= 14.0
Windows arm64, x64 >= 10

Tier 2 — Known to work, no CI

Regressions possible between releases.

Platform Architectures Minimum Version
Linux arm64, x64 >= 5.10, musl >= 1.2
Linux arm, ia32 >= 5.10, musl >= 1.2
Linux riscv64 >= 6.8, glibc >= 2.39
Linux riscv64 >= 6.6, musl >= 1.2
Linux mips, mipsel >= 5.10, musl >= 1.2

Building from Source

npm i -g bare-make
npm i
bare-make generate
bare-make build

Output:

Compile options via --define:


Embedding (C API)

Bare is designed for embedding. Clean C API via bare.h:

#include <bare.h>
#include <uv.h>

bare_t *bare;
bare_setup(loop, platform, &env, argc, argv,
           options, &bare);
bare_load(bare, filename, source, &module);
bare_run(bare, UV_RUN_DEFAULT);

int exit_code;
bare_teardown(bare, UV_RUN_DEFAULT, &exit_code);

Mobile embedding examples:


Source: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare


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