gooichi/fetch-them-macos-headers

A simplistic utility for fetching minimal macOS libc headers

fetch-them-macos-headers

This is a small utility that can be used to fetch and generate deduplicated macOS libc headers. The intention for this utility is to use it to update the libc headers shipped with Zig, and used when cross-compiling to macOS (see this article for an amazing description of the zig cc C compiler frontend).

Howto

NOTE: it makes little sense running this utility on a non-macOS host.

1. Build

zig build

2. (Optional) Add additional libc headers to src/headers.c.

3. Fetch headers into libc/include/<arch>-macos-gnu

./zig-cache/bin/fetch_them_macos_headers fetch

4. Generate deduplicated headers dirs in <destination> path

./zig-cache/bin/fetch_them_macos_headers generate <destination>

5. (Optional) Copy the contents of <destination> into Zig's lib/libc/include/, and analyze the changes with git status.

Usage

Usage: fetch_them_macos_headers fetch [cflags]
       fetch_them_macos_headers generate <destination>

Commands:
  fetch [cflags]              Fetch libc headers into libc/include/<arch>-macos-gnu dir
  generate <destination>      Generate deduplicated dirs { aarch64-macos-gnu, x86_64-macos-gnu, any-macos-any }
                              into a given <destination> path

General Options:
-h, --help                    Print this help and exit