diff --git a/binr/blob/Makefile b/binr/blob/Makefile
index 9bb3ecec09..d90073f493 100644
--- a/binr/blob/Makefile
+++ b/binr/blob/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ CFLAGS+=-DR2_GITTIP=\"$(GIT_TIP)\"
 ifeq ($(WITHNONPIC),1)
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/th/libr_th.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/io/libr_io.a
-LDFLAGS+=../../libr/socket/libr_socket.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/asm/libr_asm.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/db/libr_db.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/parse/libr_parse.a
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@ LDFLAGS+=../../libr/bp/libr_bp.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/hash/libr_hash.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/bin/libr_bin.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/util/libr_util.a
+LDFLAGS+=../../libr/socket/libr_socket.a
 # extra libs #
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/fs/p/grub/libgrubfs.a
 LDFLAGS+=../../libr/db/sdb/src/libsdb.a
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ else
 LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/th -lr_th
 LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/io -lr_io
 LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/bp -lr_bp
+LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/socket -lr_socket
 LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/bin -lr_bin
 LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/reg -lr_reg
 LDFLAGS+=-L../../libr/asm -lr_asm
diff --git a/libr/db/sdb/src/Makefile b/libr/db/sdb/src/Makefile
index 9ee5d5dc66..791cdc69d9 100644
--- a/libr/db/sdb/src/Makefile
+++ b/libr/db/sdb/src/Makefile
@@ -21,13 +21,20 @@ EXEXT=
 
 BIN=sdb${EXEXT}
 
-.PHONY: all static shared clean wcl syms
+.PHONY: all static shared clean
 
-all: static shared ${BIN}
+all: ${BIN}
+	${MAKE} static
+	${MAKE} shared
 
-shared: libsdb.${SOEXT}
+sdb-version.h:
+	cd .. ; ${MAKE} src/sdb-version.h
 
-static: libsdb.a
+shared: sdb-version.h
+	${MAKE} libsdb.${SOEXT}
+
+static: sdb-version.h
+	${MAKE} libsdb.a
 
 libsdb.a: ${OBJ}
 	@#ar qf libasb.a ${OBJ}
@@ -52,20 +59,10 @@ test:
 	valgrind ./sdb foo a=3 b=4
 	valgrind ./sdb foo a=9 b=2
 
-syms:
-	otool -Vt sdb|grep callq |awk '{print $$3}'|grep -v 0x|sort|uniq > symbols-used
-	otool -Vt sdb| grep ^_ |sed -e s,:,,|sort|uniq > symbols-found
-	diff -ru symbols-found symbols-used | grep ^-
-	rm -f symbols-found symbols-used
-
 main.c:
 
-${BIN}: libsdb.a main.c
-	${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o ${BIN} main.c ${OBJ}
-	#libsdb.a
-
-wcl:
-	wc -l `echo ${OBJ}|sed -e 's,\.o,.c,g'`
+${BIN}: libsdb.a main.o
+	${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o ${BIN} main.o ${OBJ}
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf ${OBJ} libsdb.a a.out sdb sdb.dSYM *.sdb *.db *.${SOEXT}
diff --git a/libr/db/sdb/src/json.c b/libr/db/sdb/src/json.c
index 1bbffb8d4d..bf796c09f6 100644
--- a/libr/db/sdb/src/json.c
+++ b/libr/db/sdb/src/json.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /* Copyleft 2012 - sdb (aka SimpleDB) - pancake<nopcode.org> */
 
+#include <stdarg.h>
 #include "sdb.h"
 #include "json/json.h"
 
@@ -201,3 +202,89 @@ char *sdb_json_unindent(const char *s) {
 	*o = 0;
 	return O;
 }
+
+const char *sdb_json_format(SdbJsonString* s, const char *fmt, ...) {
+	va_list ap;
+	char *arg_s, *x, tmp[128];
+	float arg_f;
+	unsigned long long arg_l;
+	int i, arg_i;
+
+#define JSONSTR_ALLOCATE(y) \
+	if (s->len+y>s->blen) {\
+		s->blen *= 2;\
+		x = realloc (s->buf, s->blen);\
+		if (!x) return NULL;\
+		s->buf = x;\
+	}
+	if (!s->buf) {
+		s->blen = 1024;
+		s->buf = malloc (s->blen);
+		*s->buf = 0;
+	}
+	if (!fmt || !*fmt) return s->buf;
+	va_start (ap, fmt);
+	for (; *fmt; fmt++) {
+		if (*fmt == '%') {
+			fmt++;
+			switch (*fmt) {
+			case 'b':
+				JSONSTR_ALLOCATE (32);
+				arg_i = va_arg (ap, int);
+				arg_i = arg_i? 4: 5;
+				memcpy (s->buf+s->len, arg_i==4?"true":"false", 5);
+				s->len += arg_i;
+				break;
+			case 'f':
+				JSONSTR_ALLOCATE (32);
+				arg_f = va_arg (ap, int);
+				snprintf (tmp, sizeof (tmp), "%f", arg_f);
+				memcpy (s->buf+s->len, tmp, strlen (tmp));
+				s->len += strlen (tmp);
+				break;
+			case 'l':
+				JSONSTR_ALLOCATE (32);
+				arg_l = va_arg (ap, unsigned long long);
+				snprintf (tmp, sizeof (tmp), "0x%llx", arg_l);
+				memcpy (s->buf+s->len, tmp, strlen (tmp));
+				s->len += strlen (tmp);
+				break;
+			case 'd':
+			case 'i':
+				JSONSTR_ALLOCATE (32);
+				arg_i = va_arg (ap, int);
+				snprintf (tmp, sizeof (tmp), "%d", arg_i);
+				memcpy (s->buf+s->len, tmp, strlen (tmp));
+				s->len += strlen (tmp);
+				break;
+			case 's':
+				arg_s = va_arg (ap, char *);
+				JSONSTR_ALLOCATE (strlen (arg_s)+3);
+				s->buf[s->len++] = '"';
+				for (i=0; arg_s[i]; i++) {
+					if (arg_s[i]=='"')
+						s->buf[s->len++] = '\\';
+					s->buf[s->len++] = arg_s[i];
+				}
+				s->buf[s->len++] = '"';
+				break;
+			}
+		} else {
+			JSONSTR_ALLOCATE (10);
+			s->buf[s->len++] = *fmt;
+		}
+		s->buf[s->len] = 0;
+	}
+	va_end (ap);
+	return s->buf;
+}
+
+#if 0
+int main () {
+	SdbJsonString s = {0};
+	sdb_json_format (&s, "[{%s:%d},%b]", "Hello \"world\"", 1024, 3);
+	printf ("%s\n", sdb_json_format (&s, 0));
+	sdb_json_format_free (&s);
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/libr/db/sdb/src/sdb.h b/libr/db/sdb/src/sdb.h
index 19dd79e832..c6e1341218 100644
--- a/libr/db/sdb/src/sdb.h
+++ b/libr/db/sdb/src/sdb.h
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ int sdb_json_inc(Sdb *s, const char *k, const char *p, int n, ut32 cas);
 char *sdb_json_indent(const char *s);
 char *sdb_json_unindent(const char *s);
 
+typedef struct {
+	char *buf;
+	int blen;
+	int len;
+} SdbJsonString;
+
+const char *sdb_json_format(SdbJsonString* s, const char *fmt, ...);
+#define sdb_json_format_free(x) free ((x)->buf)
 
 // namespace
 Sdb *sdb_ns(Sdb *s, const char *name);
diff --git a/libr/include/sdb/sdb.h b/libr/include/sdb/sdb.h
index 19dd79e832..c6e1341218 100644
--- a/libr/include/sdb/sdb.h
+++ b/libr/include/sdb/sdb.h
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ int sdb_json_inc(Sdb *s, const char *k, const char *p, int n, ut32 cas);
 char *sdb_json_indent(const char *s);
 char *sdb_json_unindent(const char *s);
 
+typedef struct {
+	char *buf;
+	int blen;
+	int len;
+} SdbJsonString;
+
+const char *sdb_json_format(SdbJsonString* s, const char *fmt, ...);
+#define sdb_json_format_free(x) free ((x)->buf)
 
 // namespace
 Sdb *sdb_ns(Sdb *s, const char *name);
diff --git a/libr/socket/http_server.c b/libr/socket/http_server.c
index a3fe2e8f57..bd28f4aca7 100644
--- a/libr/socket/http_server.c
+++ b/libr/socket/http_server.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ R_API void r_socket_http_response (RSocketHTTPRequest *rs, int code, const char
 	if (len<1) len = strlen (out);
 	r_socket_printf (rs->s, "HTTP/1.1 %d %s\n"
 		"Content-Length: %d\n\n", code, strcode, len);
-	r_socket_write (rs->s, out, len);
+	r_socket_write (rs->s, (void*)out, len);
 }
 
 /* close client socket and free struct */
diff --git a/libr/syscall/d/Makefile b/libr/syscall/d/Makefile
index 03b8344c10..76ff1c0309 100644
--- a/libr/syscall/d/Makefile
+++ b/libr/syscall/d/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ include $(TOP)/config-user.mk
 
 F_SDB=$(addsuffix .sdb,$F)
 
-SDB=../../db/sdb/src/sdb
+SDB=../../db/sdb/sdb
 
 all: ${SDB}
 	@${MAKE} compile
@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ clean:
 	rm -f *.sdb
 
 ${SDB}:
-	cd $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src && ${MAKE} ARCH=xxx
+	cp -rf $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src-native
+	#cd $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src-native && ${MAKE} -j ${MAKE_JOBS} ARCH=xxx CC=gcc clean sdb
+	cd $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src-native && ${MAKE} -j 1 ARCH=xxx CC=gcc clean sdb
+	cp -f $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src-native/sdb $(LTOP)/db/sdb/sdb
+	rm -rf $(LTOP)/db/sdb/src-native
 
 .PHONY: all clean install install-symlink symstall