modernc/v4

[withinboredom]

Don't ask how I stumbled upon this ... but have you seen https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/ccgo/v4? A c compiler that outputs go...

I wonder if it can compile php??

[dunglas]

I'm not sure that we want to support such a hack 😅
Let's stay with officially supported compilers.

Also, this likely comes with a performance cost.

[AlliBalliBaba]

As a sidenote, one compiler that might be interesting is zig's compiler. It apparently can cross-compile C/C++ code to most targets. Though I think the language itself still needs a few years to be where it wants to be.

[nickchomey]

I just came across this concept today, and it seems promising. Here's some articles about it

https://dev.to/kristoff/zig-makes-go-cross-compilation-just-work-29ho
https://zig.news/kristoff/building-sqlite-with-cgo-for-every-os-4cic

(ChatGPT etc also seem to be quite informative about it if you care to consult it)

[henderkes]

As a sidenote, one compiler that might be interesting is zig's compiler. It apparently can cross-compile C/C++ code to most targets. Though I think the language itself still needs a few years to be where it wants to be.

Gave it a shot and it fails compiling approximately 20-30% of the required libraries for php, most notably pkg-config.