Hacker News with Generative AI: Cross-Compilation

What the hell is a target triple? (mcyoung.xyz)
Cross-compiling is taking a computer program and compiling it for a machine that isn’t the one hosting the compilation. Although historically compilers would only compile for the host machine, this is considered an anachronism: all serious native compilers are now cross-compilers.

Programming, Compilers, Cross-Compilation

171 points by ingve 11 days ago | 133 comments

Cross Compiling Swift (khanwinter.com)
There are multiple ways to cross-compile Swift on different platforms. I explored a few methods while building a Discord bot and a Bluesky bot.

Swift, Programming Languages, Cross-Compilation, Discord, Bluesky

3 points by todsacerdoti 26 days ago | 0 comments

Buildroot (buildroot.org)
Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.

Embedded Systems, Linux, Cross-Compilation, Tools

81 points by jakogut 202 days ago | 31 comments

Use Zig cc to cross‐compile a CMake project (github.com/ziglang)

Cross-Compilation, CMake, Zig

13 points by jcbhmr 281 days ago | 2 comments