🏘️ Village of prebuilt executables for multiple platforms

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Build

./dev/cross/all <tool-name>

What is this?

Cross-compiles command-line tools as portable, self-contained binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows. No runtime dependencies required.

Patched upstream tools

Some tools are upstream releases with small fixes. Their tasks download the upstream source by checksum and apply the numbered patch files in tasks/<name>/patches/; each patch file explains the defect it fixes. The packages carry the patches in share/<name>/patches/.

• wasm-bindgen: the wasm-bindgen CLI, built from its crates.io packages with upstream's Cargo.lock. In Emscripten mode, upstream moves the start function of the linker, which initializes the shared memory of a module with threads (-pthread), to an export that its JavaScript calls after instantiation. The memory is then no longer initialized at instantiation, and the emcc link fails for modules whose EM_JS or EM_ASM strings emcc reads from that memory, for example with -sMALLOC=mimalloc. The patch keeps that start function in place

Features

• Fully static linking (no shared library dependencies)
• Optimized builds (-O3, vectorization, loop unrolling)
• Architecture-tuned for modern CPUs
• Single-file deployment

Use Cases

• Deploying tools to minimal containers (Alpine, scratch)
• Running on systems without package managers
• Air-gapped environments
• CI/CD pipelines with portable tooling

Releases

Download from GitHub Releases.

Keywords

static binaries, prebuilt executables, portable binaries, statically linked, cross compile binaries, linux static binary, macos static binary, windows static binary, self-contained executable, no dependencies