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Cross compilation is a common task during development, but different compilers and programming languages handle it in their own ways, and I wanted to write about the various flavors of trade-offs and design decisions that you will find across different tooling. I feel like I have absorbed a lot of information about how cross compilation works across different targets, tools and languages, so I figured it was time to condense my knowledge into a blog post. This is not a tutorial, but it still contains practically applicable knowledge. I don’t claim to get every detail correct, merely explaining how things work to my understanding. ...

When executing various Makefiles with w64devkit, you can occasionally run across a Windows program with a Makefile written for cmd.exe. Often the only thing broken about them is the conventional clean target, which uses del.exe and will only work under cmd.exe. make clean del *.o /s sh: del: not found make: *** [Makefile:734: clean] Error 127 Confusingly, even if you then open cmd.exe and run make clean from there, you still get the same error! ...