Static cross and native musl-based toolchains

Since we're talking musl, the author of the library has recently asked[1] the community to support him more actively on Patreon[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/1101157783620255744

[2] https://www.patreon.com/musl/overview

This is great. Another handy musl-based toolchain that supports some of these targets is ellcc [1]. It's llvm+clang based. It's a little behind so I suppose it doesn't support RISCV yet. It will probably never support SH targets because those aren't in llvm and there aren't any public plans to add one AFAIK.

[1] http://ellcc.org/

I’m using musl to cross-compile static Windows binaries from Mac for my app [0]. Here’s the instructions I use for it: https://blog.filippo.io/easy-windows-and-linux-cross-compile...

I’ve been using this in real world production builds and I’ve had no issues so far, I compile SQLite with it as it’s my main C dependency. No slowdowns, nothing weird happening, it just works like a champ. Very impressive.

[0] (Obvious disclosure, I’m the developer) https://getaether.net

If I understand this correctly, since MUSL's USP is static linking of musl-libc thereby removing any dependency on breaking changes in glibc, we now have the ability to build with the exact same compiler and generate stand-alone binaries without a libc dependency on Windows, Mac, Linux, across multiple processors (x86, x64, ARM, ARM-64, ...).

This is fantastic news!