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by AndyKelley 3370 days ago
If you depend on Zig then you only depend on Zig to produce a binary or library for any system.

If you depend on Nim then you depend on Nim, a C compiler, and a linker. And I hope your C compiler supports cross compiling out of the box. It probably doesn't.

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> you depend on Nim, a C compiler, and a linker

It's a small number of build dependencies.

> I hope your C compiler supports cross compiling out of the box.

It does.

Does the LLVM not count as a dependency?