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mxe | zig | |
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9 | 816 | |
1,157 | 30,295 | |
1.3% | 4.1% | |
9.5 | 10.0 | |
5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Makefile | Zig | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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mxe
- MXE (M Cross Environment)
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Using pybind11 with minGW to cross compile pyhton module for Windows
Cross compiler 64bit minGW along with MXE environment
- Getting “QT with MinGW support”?
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Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively
I used to use MXE [1] to compile fully static Windows binaries on Linux VMs hosted with Travis. It needed to crane in everything though, so it was a source of bottlenecks from time to time. I was also uncertain about the provenance of a lot of the dependencies in that toolchain. So when Travis died I took the opportunity to move Windows builds back to gnu with msys2, all over GH Actions. These are actually comparatively snappy and I’m reasonably satisfied with it.
[1] https://mxe.cc/
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Linux-to-Windows cross-compilation using MSYS2 packages
MXE readily supports GCC 12 as a plugin (just a configuration line): https://github.com/mxe/mxe/tree/master/plugins/gcc12
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Seer - a new gui frontend to gdb/mi (Updated v1.3)
Also, if you don't have any other significant dependencies, getting the development tools on Windows is not that hard with the Qt installer. Alternatively, there is MXE.
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Writing code in Linux, but creating a program in windows.
MXE (https://mxe.cc/) is a great cross compiler environment (on linux) that uses mingw.
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Cross-compilation on a mac
You can install Docker to build on any Linux distro, and if one of those is Ubuntu then you can use https://github.com/mxe/mxe to further build for Windows. Or VirtualBox + Ubuntu + MXE.
zig
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Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig. (2021)
There is an issue proposing this approach: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4284
- Zig Programming Language
- Zig Language 0.12 Release
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Zig 0.12.0 Release Notes
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224
e.g.:
> > When debugging/prototyping, it's useful to comment out a line without having to refactor, e.g.
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How to Write a PHP Extension with Zig?
When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).
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Bun - The One Tool for All Your JavaScript/Typescript Project's Needs?
NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.
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Bun 1.1
ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()
There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11894
- Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
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Nanos – A Unikernel
Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]
[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
- Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
What are some alternatives?
llvm-mingw - An LLVM/Clang/LLD based mingw-w64 toolchain
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
seer - Seer - a gui frontend to gdb
Odin - Odin Programming Language
quasi-msys2 - Cross-compile C/C++ from Linux to Windows using MSYS2 packages
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
displaylink-rpm - RPM sources for the DisplayLink USB display adapters
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
manylinux - Python wheels that work on any linux (almost)
go - The Go programming language
glibc_version_header - Build portable Linux binaries without using an ancient distro
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!