README.md
1This is a basic set of replacement library implementations sufficient to get simple applications
2running on your computer (Raspberry Pi OS, Linux, macOS or Windows using Cygwin or Windows Subsystem for Linux).
3It is selected by `PICO_PLATFORM=host` in your CMake build
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5This can be extremely useful for testing and debugging higher level application code, or porting code which is not yet small enough
6to run on the RP2040 device itself.
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8This base level host library provides a minimal environment to compile programs, but is likely sufficient for programs
9that don't access hardware directly.
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11It is possible however to inject additional SDK library implementations/simulations to provide
12more complete functionality. For an example of this see the [pico-host-sdl](https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-host-sdl)
13which uses the SDL2 library to add additional library support for pico_multicore, timers/alarms in pico-time and
14pico-audio/pico-scanvideo from [pico-extras](https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-extras)
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