Cross Compilation Theory and Practice - from a Tooling Perspective
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. ...