Claire Xen  🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🧙🏻‍♀️ BLM  🏴 🚩

and since y'all are going to skip my TED talk, can I just take this opportunity to say, once and for all: fuck cross compilers

HEY

it's just that, like, I don't feel like there's any fundamental reason for them to cause as much suffering as they invariably cause

As someone who has worked in embedded and is currently working on RISC-V I have to disagree vehemently. Also: Most of the troubles with cross compilers have nothing to do with the compilers but with libraries and stuff like lib paths. Fuck those! -ffreestanding -nostdlib :)

I don't find that they cause much suffering unless people expect to just pull in random dependencies from all over (eg, packages installed on their build machine, rather than third-party code vendored into their source tree). If you manage your whole build tree, life is saner.

Mind you, it's work, but it's worth it. Some of this comes from a background of building-the-whole-OS and wanting or needing to know where exactly every bit of source comes from and keep track of it. YMMV, I suppose.

IME most cross-compiler related pain is caused by a) compilers that aren't always cross-compiling (*cough*GCC) and b) awful homegrown buildsystems