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authorRyan Liptak <squeek502@hotmail.com>2025-02-07 20:56:49 -0800
committerAndrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>2025-02-22 21:21:30 -0500
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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: https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/4a11fd8dde745789f66d6500412d7f56607e9218/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
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