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by staticfloat 2737 days ago
I'm quite interested in Darling, mostly for the purpose of cross-compiling from Linux -> Darwin. We cross-compile a lot of things for Julia, however cross-compiling executables that need to bootstrap something, (e.g. building something that then needs to run to generate output which is then used in further builds) can often get tricky. There are of course workarounds that can be utilized in order to get this to work (build a Linux-native version and a Darwin version, then use the Linux-native version of the software whenever a bootstrap is required) but this is tedious and not foolproof.