One thing you might want to consider (or might not) is looking at Mongrel 2. It uses ANSI C and supports a variety of platforms, using only gmake and standard m

One thing you might want to consider (or might not) is looking at Mongrel 2. It uses ANSI C and supports a variety of platforms, using only gmake and standard macros. I haven't looked at the code very much myself, but it's a pretty neat accomplishments.