Built-In Development Kit

[rwmills]

In David Korn's 'Guidelines for writing ksh-93 built-in commands' (ksh 93u+m/1.0.10 /docs/ksh/builtins.html & /src/cmd/ksh93/builtins.mm) it says that there is a development kit for writing ksh built-ins. It says that the development kit has three directories, include, lib, and bin.

I have spent several hours looking for this development kit but have not yet been able to find it. Has anybody used this kit to create additional built-ins? If you have then where did you find it?

The reason that I am looking is because I want to add the ability to use Windows style INI files in ksh93 scripts.

[dnewhall]

Not sure exactly what David Korn was referring to here, but if you want examples of how to create a builtin command look at ksh-dev/src/lib/libcmd/features/ for how the current ones are designed and built.

I know there's some better documentation somewhere, but Finnbarr P. Murphy also had a couple blog posts on his old blog about builtins:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170709130035/http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/01/ksh93-stat-builtin.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20211203225052/https://blog.fpmurphy.com/2010/08/ksh93-hash-builtins.html

[rwmills]

I've already got a copy of those blog posts (downloaded them and all his other ksh93 posts years ago).