Patching GCC to Build Portable Executables

Re:Patching GCC to Build Portable Executables by paulclinger on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:43AM (#36724697)

> Consider offering APE for x64 but then still producing ARM binaries the old fashioned way.

The recent version of cosmopolitan generates ARM binaries for Linux and MacOS (https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan#arm; mode aarch64). There is also blink that provides the x86-64 emulation layer for (APE and other) binaries on a variety of platforms (https://github.com/jart/blink).

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Re:Patching GCC to Build Portable Executables by electroly on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:50AM (#36724807)

I didn't know about that, thanks! It gives me hope that the final goal (fat binary, native ARM and native x64, all platforms on both architectures) is within reach. It looks like there are still some hiccups (the APE loader on M1) but they are much further along than I thought they were. Excellent!

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Re:Patching GCC to Build Portable Executables by paulclinger on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:23AM (#36725318)

Speaking about fat binaries; @jart posted this a day ago in the #ape channel on project discord:

Just created my first ever fat ape executable. I ran `apelink.com -o fat-ape-binary.com o/tiny/examples/hello2.com.dbg o/aarch64-tiny/examples/hello2.com.dbg` to create an executable that runs on Linux+OpenBSD+NetBSD+FreeBSD on x86_64+aarch64.

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