Ryan Liptak a502301b5e zig rc: Add COFF object file creation for CMake cross-compilation use case ... In #22522 I said: > RC="zig rc" will now work in combination with zig cc and CMake. Here's an example of cross-compiling a simple Windows GUI CMake project > > $ RC="zig rc" CC="zig cc --target=x86_64-windows-gnu" cmake .. -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows -G Ninja However, I didn't realize that the time that this only works because of the `-G Ninja` part. When not using Ninja as the build tool, CMake adds a workaround for 'very long lists of object files' where it takes all object files and runs them through `ar` to combine them into one archive: 4a11fd8dde/Modules/Platform/Windows-GNU.cmake (L141-L158) This is a problem for the Windows resource use-case, because `ar` doesn't know how to deal with `.res` files and so this object combining step fails with: unknown file type: foo.rc.res Only the linker knows what to do with .res files (since it has its own `.res` -> `.obj` ('cvtres') conversion mechanism). So, when using Ninja, this object file combining step is skipped and the .res file gets passed to the linker and everyone is happy. Note: When CMake thinks that its using `windres` as the Windows resource compiler, it will pass `-O coff` to windres which causes it to output a COFF object file instead of a `.res` file, which means that the `ar` step can succeed because it's only working on actual object files. --- This commit gives `zig rc` the ability to output COFF object files directly when `/:output-format coff` is provided as an argument. This effectively matches what happens when CMake uses `windres` for resource compilation, but requires the argument to be provided explicitly. So, after this change, the following CMake cross-compilation use case will work, even when not using Ninja as the generator: RC="zig rc /:output-format coff" CC="zig cc --target=x86_64-windows-gnu" cmake .. -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows		2025-02-22 21:21:30 -05:00
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aro	zig build fmt	2025-02-22 17:09:20 -08:00
aro_translate_c	cbe,translate-c: support more callconvs	2024-10-19 19:15:24 +01:00
reduce	reduce: fix compile errors	2024-03-24 17:29:39 +01:00
resinator	zig rc: Add COFF object file creation for CMake cross-compilation use case	2025-02-22 21:21:30 -05:00
aro_translate_c.zig	Sema: rewrite semantic analysis of function calls	2025-01-09 06:46:47 +00:00
build_runner.zig	std.ArrayList: popOrNull() -> pop() [v2] (#22720)	2025-02-10 04:21:31 +00:00
libc.zig	zig libc: allow non-native targets	2024-03-13 02:17:28 -04:00
objcopy.zig	objcopy: check both global and local when remapping	2024-10-12 10:44:17 -07:00
reduce.zig	Replace deprecated default initializations with decl literals	2024-09-12 16:01:23 +01:00
std-docs.zig	Replace deprecated default initializations with decl literals	2024-09-12 16:01:23 +01:00
test_runner.zig	fuzzer: write inputs to shared memory before running	2025-02-11 13:39:20 -08:00