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andrewrk opened this issue Jul 12, 2019 · 2 comments
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add FreeBSD libc as a cross compilation target #2876

andrewrk opened this issue Jul 12, 2019 · 2 comments
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enhancement Solving this issue will likely involve adding new logic or components to the codebase. libc Issues related to libzigc and Zig's vendored libc code. os-freebsd
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andrewrk commented Jul 12, 2019 •
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Extracted from #514.

This is needed for FreeBSD to become a tier 1 target (#1759)

The example set by glibc can be followed.

See also this wiki page: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Updating-libc
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
406cc4f 
Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD Scrt1.o and stub shared libraries.
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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compiler: Support building FreeBSD crt1.o/Scrt1.o and stub shared lib…
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Only works for FreeBSD 14+. Note that we still default to targeting FreeBSD 13.

Contributes to ziglang#2876.
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alexrp commented May 12, 2025

This is supported as of #23835.

I'll leave this issue open for tracking support for linking FreeBSD libc statically.

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alexrp commented May 20, 2025

We've decided that we're not going to support upstream static libc for the BSDs for two reasons:

  • It's a significant amount of C code we'd have to import (~13M for FreeBSD).
  • BSD libcs are developed alongside the kernel, meaning whenever we import libc code, it's likely to contain subtle dependencies on the kernel from that same OS version. This makes static libc a strictly worse option for cross-compilation on BSDs.

Therefore, this issue is done as of #23835.

We're still open to exploring static libc for the BSDs, but it'll have to be by way of libzigc, i.e. #2879.

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