Top 10 linker Open-Source Projects

exodus

10 2,924 0.0 Python

Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.

Project mention: I reduced the size of my Docker image by 40% – Dockerizing shell scripts | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03

COPY --from=ugit-ops /lib/ld-musl-* /lib/
No, what I'm saying is you're blanket copying fully different versions of common library files into the operating system lib folder as shown above, possibly breaking OS lib symlinks in the process for _current_ versions used in Alpine OS if they exist now or in the future, potentially destroying OS lib dependencies, and also overwriting the ones possibly included in the future by Alpine OS itself to get your statically copied versions of the various CLI tools to work.
That is _insanely_ shortsighted. There's a safe way to do that and then there is the way you did it. If you want to learn to do it right, look at how Exodus does it so that they don't destroy OS library dependency files in the process of making a binary able to be moved from one OS to another.
Exodus: https://github.com/intoli/exodus

rsrc

3 1,172 0.0 Go

Tool for embedding .ico & manifest resources in Go programs for Windows.
InfluxDB

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blink

1 1,030 5.2 C++

A tool which allows you to edit source code of any MSVC C++ project live at runtime (by crosire)

Project mention: A Modern C Development Environment | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10

> 9. The debugger can modify a variable while the program is running.
> 11. The debugger can modify a function while the program is running (any new calls are done to that function).
Another words: hot code reloading / swapping [1].
And I would add:
> You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time. [2]
[1] e.g. https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live, https://github.com/crosire/blink, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

z88dk

6 846 9.9 Assembly

The development kit for over a hundred z80 family machines - c compiler, assembler, linker, libraries.

Project mention: Best practice to store context for a C compiler | /r/Compilers | 2023-06-20

z88dk

llvm-mos

13 388 10.0

Port of LLVM to the MOS 6502 and related processors

Project mention: LLVM-MOS 6502 Compiler Backend: Having a Blast in the Past | /r/beneater | 2023-11-15

nxdk

17 383 6.2 C

The cross-platform, open-source SDK to develop for original Xbox: *new* xdk

Project mention: PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-12

In addition to what tehbeard mentioned, Xemu at least (which is what i have experience with as i used it to do some homebrew development[0] with the open source nxdk[1] SDK) is far from accurate and largely just a means for playing OG Xbox games on modern hardware. However the GPU emulation does not take into account NV2A's performance at all and simply translates the calls to OpenGL (despite the "DirectXbox" name, the GPU is actually designed around OpenGL :-P) so it is much faster than the real one and depending on what is going on the CPU performance can also be quite faster. IIRC it doesn't even emulate the real CPU the OG Xbox has as you can accidentally use instructions in Xemu not available on the real hardware.
Of course if your goal is to just have games from OG Xbox playable on a PC that is fine (if anything for most games it is an improvement as they'd run smoother) but if you want cycle accurate emulation it doesn't fit the bill. In that case basing the emulator on something like 86box might be better as that has been designed with the goal of achieving cycle accurate PC hardware emulation.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpK6eX-04M
[1] https://github.com/XboxDev/nxdk/

vox

13 326 5.8 D

Vox language compiler. AOT / JIT / Linker. Zero dependencies

Project mention: The Styx Programming Language | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-07

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
xcc

1 169 9.7 C

Toy C compiler for x86-64/aarch64/riscv64/wasm
stm32f1-baremetal

2 8 7.1 C

Program STM32 Arm Cortex M3 micro-controller using bare metal embedded c
ProprietaryAssembler

1 7 5.3 C

This repository contains the implementation of a two pass assembler involving tries for fast in-memory opcode fetch and has implementation of loader and linkers for linking the object file created to make an executable file.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-02-03.