I'm not resistant to the C libraries, just C++ and wires stuff and IDE.
Once I found the C libraries in arduino-0017/hardware/cores/arduino
I was happy as a clam with the libraries.
But I first wasted some time fixing stuff from the code linked on this page:
http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/CommandLine
which seems to just have the same subdir from 0011, with maybe some
mac stuff. I'm going to go try creating an account and editing that page now...