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cargo-zigbuild
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Show HN: macOS-cross-compiler – Compile binaries for macOS on Linux
https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild
I’m curious what the blockers are for rustc to cross-compile like zig does natively.
- [Review] Introducing cargo-xwin: A Solution for Cross-Compiling Rust on macOS to MSVC
- Compiling Linux to Mac in CI/CD
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Conditional compilation to avoid cross compilation
Perhaps you can try cargo-zigbuild, it uses zig-cc for cross-compilation instead of creating a container, so it should be much more lightweight on MacOS, without all the cost of virtualization and file sharing.
- Cross-compiling simple Rust code from Mac OS X to Raspberry Pi 4
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Future of Rust, 2023 and beyond?
I have tried, however I haven't been able to get it to work reliably (e.g. building on windows + linux on WSL works, Mac is a lot more involved; tried building for windows + linux on Mac and I couldn't get it to work at all); I've had some luck using zigbuild but that too doesn't seem to work for Mac.
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C2Rust Transpiler
Zig also takes this approach, and even exposes its C compiler (which if I recall correctly is basically Clang plus diverse sysroots and other customisation out of the box) as a separate `zig cc`.
I do a lot of work in Rust, and cross-compilation can be a pain when you have a lot of C dependencies. Fortunately https://github.com/messense/cargo-zigbuild exists. It sounds crazy, but using Zig's inbuilt C compiler to help build my Rust projects has been the smoothest option I've found.
I can't help but wonder if it would be worth it for Rust to follow D and Zig by shipping its own inbuilt C compiler, even if they still want to also support external C toolchains. It should be roughly the same effort as it was for Zig, given that they both use LLVM.
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Short story of Rust being amazing yet again (because it compiles on different architectures effortlessly)
Wait until you start using cargo zig-build. Suddenly it becomes way better than Go's cross compiler because you can seamlessly cross-compile rust AND C (thanks to Zig compiler of course). https://github.com/messense/cargo-zigbuild
- The perfect language
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Cross-compilation in Rust
I've personally used cargo-zigbuild and cargo-xwin to distribute a GUI app built with iced.
embed-c
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When Zig is safer and faster than Rust
Shameless self-plug: https://github.com/zdimension/embed-c
This transpiles C to Rust at compile time, though it requires a nightly compiler and hasn't been updated in some time. But it's exactly what you're looking for. C code in, unsafe Rust code out.
This one runs the C code as a program, so the code doesn't really communicate. I made a proof of concept some time ago of a macro that really translates C to Rust at compile time: https://github.com/zdimension/embed-c
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The perfect language
literally this
- Tired of safe programming? Embed C directly in your Rust code
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