doom VS cargo-zigbuild

I believe that you're talking about doom repository. If that's the case, how'd I believe that it was indeed done using C2V when it's non-existent (checked the repo, it's still empty). A simple AST parsing python script with some heuristics can achieve one time conversion, that doesn't mean that it would work for all C programs.

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.

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.

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.

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

I've personally used cargo-zigbuild and cargo-xwin to distribute a GUI app built with iced.

I've just published a new major release, v1.0.0 of the rust.aws-cdk-lambda construct library, which now uses cargo-zigbuild instead of a containerized approach using cross for building and cross-compiling Rust code. After initial testing, I am quite satisfied with the results; overall build and deploy times seem to now be faster with zig, and compilation after making minor code changes is now overall much faster! I am using this CDK construct library in a professional setting currently, but I hope others can also take advantage and benefit from using this library along with AWS CDK for any deployments to AWS Lambda.