> How to do this is documented only in the middle of a dusty ld manual nobody has ever read. This got an audible laugh out of me. > Good platforms allow you t

> How to do this is documented only in the middle of a dusty ld manual nobody has ever read. This got an audible laugh out of me. > Good platforms allow you to build on newer versions whilst targeting older versions. I haven't been doing this for 20 years (13), but I've written a fair amount of C. This, among other things, is what made me start dabbling with zig. ~ gcc -o foo foo.c ~ du -sh foo 16K foo ~ readelf -sW foo | grep 'GLIBC' | sort -h 1: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.34 (2) 3: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND puts@GLIBC_2.2.5 (3) 6: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.34 6: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT UND __cxa_finalize@GLIBC_2.2.5 (3) 9: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND puts@GLIBC_2.2.5 22: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT UND __cxa_finalize@GLIBC_2.2.5 ~ ldd foo linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc1cbac000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9c3a849000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9c3aa72000) ~ zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.5 foo.c -o foo ~ du -sh foo 8.0K foo ~ readelf -sW foo | grep 'GLIBC' | sort -h 1: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND __libc_start_main@GLIBC_2.2.5 (2) 3: 0000000000000000 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND printf@GLIBC_2.2.5 (2) ~ ldd foo linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffde2a76000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x0000718e94965000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000718e94b89000) edit: I haven't built anything complicated with zig as I have with the other c build systems, but so far it seems to have some legit quality of life improvements.