Cross Compiling

Cross-compiling is the process of building software on one platform (the host) to run on another platform (the target). This is used for situations including:

• target platform has limited resources
• development environment is more efficient on the host platform
• one host platform can build for multiple target platforms

2025

• 2025-07-15 – CMake use MUSL slim libc
• 2025-02-16 – Windows 32-bit binaries with CMake + MSVC
• 2025-02-02 – Run macOS Terminal command with Rosetta

2024

• 2024-08-25 – Cross-compiler Raspberry Pi Pico

2022

• 2022-05-05 – Cross-compile for DOS from Windows or Linux

2020

• 2020-03-27 – Ninja job pools for low memory CMake builds