[flohofwoe]

You'll have to write C API wrappers around your C++ libraries to access them from Zig, but other then that I can cross-compile my mixed C/C++/Zig projects using Windows APIs like DXGI/D3D/WASAPI with `zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-windows` from a Mac with the vanilla Zig toolchain.

...you don't even need to port anything in your C/C++ project to Zig, just integrate `zig cc` as C/C++ compiler into your existing build system, or port your build system files to build.zig.

[90s_dev]

That works out great, since all the libraries I need are C or have C wrappers anyway. I might actually do this, thanks.

[forrestthewoods]

Wait what. Shouldn’t zig crosscompile C++ just fine?

[flohofwoe]

Yes, the C++ code compiles just fine, but to call into C++ APIs from Zig you'll need a C API wrapper (and the same is true for ObjC APIs). Not an issue of course for pure C++ projects when the Zig toolchain is just used for cross-compiling.

[forrestthewoods]

Oooh yeah that makes sense.