crossbow VS cargo-lipo

Compare crossbow vs cargo-lipo and see what are their differences.

crossbow

Cross-Platform build tools and toolkit for games and game engines written in Rust! 🦀 (by dodorare)

cargo-lipo

Cargo subcommand to automatically create universal libraries for iOS. (by TimNN)
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crossbow cargo-lipo
1 2
195 512
4.1% -
0.0 4.4
2 months ago 3 months ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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crossbow

Posts with mentions or reviews of crossbow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

cargo-lipo

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-lipo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-30.
  • Build on mac M1
    4 projects | /r/rust | 30 Oct 2021
    Yes. You can target aarch64 and x86_64. Universals binaries can be created manually or via cargo-lipo.
  • Building Rust libraries for iOS in 2021
    3 projects | /r/rust | 29 Oct 2021
    When I created the library a few years ago, the go-to way for this was cargo-lipo. That worked fine when building for aarch64-apple-ios and x86_64-apple-ios, but when building both for ARM64 iOS and M1 the linker fails:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crossbow and cargo-lipo you can also consider the following projects:

macroquad - Cross-platform game engine in Rust.

ObjCrust - Using Rust to create an iOS static library

stretch - High performance flexbox implementation written in rust

cargo-mobile - Rust on mobile made easy!

wgpu-in-app - Integrate wgpu into existing iOS | Android apps.

glean - Modern cross-platform telemetry

dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

Cargo - The Rust package manager

xbase - Develop Apple software products within your favorite editor.

creator - A state management library that enables concise, fluid, readable and testable business logic code.

cross - “Zero setup” cross compilation and “cross testing” of Rust crates

homebrew-musl-cross - Homebrew Formula for static-friendly musl-based GCC macOS-to-Linux cross-compilers