hi. crystal is almost great for desktop app development, but just one issue. there’s no cross compilation unless you count the oldfashioned $100 per compilation on a CI/CD, which isn’t an option for free app development as a hobby. is it possible to make cross compilation actually good, and when …

[image] Use zig cc as a alternative linker (draft version) Community This approach was originally verified by @luislavena and first posted here , here and here , big thanks to him for proving this solutin work, and he showed a little bit of this in following videos: [Buildi…

so, could you give me the simple outline how to do it?

Are you checking the above post carefully?

yes but youtube videos don’t help me much because I’m blind.

just an image, I can’t read anything from an image, my screenreader doesn’t work with them unless someone labels them.

I also don’t see an image anywhere, maybe a popup? Here’s a direct link to the blog post that appears to be all text: Cross-compiling Crystal applications - Part 1 Hope it helps :)

ok, but that’s just some technical info not actual like, how do I do this without going weird with writing my own compiler and stuff.

Maybe this will work for you? [image] Cross-compiling using qemu-static Learning Resources qemu-static allows you to run containers built for other architectures (of course, with a performance penalty). BUT this means you can cross-compile to arm/amd64 quite easily. Here…

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Just yesterday the author of these videos published a written article about cross-compiliation: Cross-compiling Crystal applications - Part 1

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