Part 22. Cross-Platform Development

Windows is one of Zig’s main supported platforms. You can write Zig programs on Windows, build Windows executables, call Windows system APIs, link with C libraries, and...

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Section	Title
1	Windows Support
2	Linux Support
3	macOS Support
4	WebAssembly
5	ARM and Embedded Targets
6	Cross-Target Debugging
7	Portable APIs
8	Handling Platform Differences
9	Packaging Cross-Platform Apps

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Windows Support

Windows is one of Zig’s main supported platforms. You can write Zig programs on Windows, build Windows executables, call Windows system APIs, link with C libraries, and...

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Linux Support

Linux is one of the most natural platforms for Zig. Many Zig programs are built, tested, and deployed on Linux because Linux is common in servers, containers, embedded...

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macOS Support

macOS is one of Zig’s main desktop targets. You can use Zig on macOS to write command-line tools, development utilities, servers, libraries, and cross-platform applications.

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WebAssembly

WebAssembly, often shortened to Wasm, is a portable binary instruction format. It lets you compile code once and run it inside different hosts, such as web browsers, servers,...

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ARM and Embedded Targets

ARM is a CPU architecture family used in phones, tablets, laptops, routers, Raspberry Pi boards, microcontrollers, servers, and many embedded devices. When you write Zig for...

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Cross-Target Debugging

Cross-target debugging means debugging a program built for a different machine, operating system, or CPU architecture than the one you are sitting at.

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Portable APIs

A portable API is an interface that works across more than one platform.

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Handling Platform Differences

A cross-platform Zig program should not pretend that every operating system behaves the same way. Windows, Linux, macOS, WebAssembly, and embedded targets have different...

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Packaging Cross-Platform Apps

Packaging means preparing your program so other people can download it, install it, run it, and trust what they are running.