I removed those dumb platform specific makefiles. They weren't doing what they ought anyway. If there are platform specific issues, someone please tell me and I'll provide support for it here. Or patch it yourself.

And this is the big "Fix the Parser" patch.  It turns the sam_parse function in src/parse.c into something that actually works.  Generating the argument list from an incoming SAM thingy is a bit memory churn-y; perhaps when I have time I'll replace all those strdups with structures that simply track the (start,end) indices.
Oh and also I moved i2p-ping to the new system.  Which required 0 change in code.  All I did was fix the Makefile, and add shared library libtool support.  Anyway, so enjoy folks.  It's rare I'm this productive
- polecat

apps/sam/c/inc/tinystring.h

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#ifndef TINYSTRING_HEADER
+#define TINYSTRING_HEADER
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#ifndef bool
+#define bool short int
+#endif
+
+struct string_s;
+#define string_t struct string_s*
+//Mysteeeerious *waggles mysteriously*
+
+/*{
+  char* data;
+  long int size;
+} *string_t;
+*/
+
+string_t string_create(const char*);
+string_t string_ncreate(const char* cstr,long int length);
+
+string_t string_wrap(const char*); 
+//Does not malloc, do NOT pass to string_free
+
+string_t string_fmt(const char* fmt, ...);
+string_t string_cat(string_t,string_t);
+
+/* Source Dest */
+void string_copy(string_t,string_t);
+void string_copy_raw(string_t,void*,size_t);
+
+const char* string_data(string_t);
+long int string_size(string_t);
+
+void string_free(string_t);
+
+bool string_equal(string_t,string_t);
+bool string_equali(string_t,string_t);
+int string_cmp(string_t,string_t);
+int string_cmpi(string_t,string_t);
+
+#define _sw(a) string_wrap(a)
+#define _scr(a,b,c) string_copy_raw(a,b,c)
+
+#define string_is(a,b) (! strncmp(string_data(a),(b),string_size(a)))
+
+#endif /* TINYSTRING_HEADER */