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Brilliant - I'm glad someone has taken the time to really polish this up! The difficulty in doing cross-OS NAOT publishing rally holds .NET back IMO.

Thanks, I needed Fable to get me over the line with this 😅 I've been trying to get this matrix green for a while now, and the final big hurdle was how to build for macOS on non-macOS hardware without shipping the SDK (which is prohibited), that's solved now by generating the stubs.

I've swapped our multi-runner job at work, and now just have a single runner producing our native cli, and it's working great.

Chet Husk

@chethusk.bsky.social

I've got some sample projects that I want to move to this. NAOT tool packaging is a pain in the butt right now, and I think the base SDK might prevent doing multi-RID publishing for tools on the assumption that we won't ever work with it.

github.comAdd Builds on / Runs on matrix graphic to README (#70) · slang25/AotAnywhere@b669849NuGet package to help you cross-compile Native AOT to different OSes/architectures - Add Builds on / Runs on matrix graphic to README (#70) · slang25/AotAnywhere@b669849

Oh, forgot to post the CI matrix: github.com/slang25/AotA...

I am very interested in that part - so you managed to find a way to generate a stub macOS SDK that can be legally redistributed, unlike the original one? I would love to try it in my current cross-compilation workflows that use the original SDKs copied over to Linux

Yes, the tbd stub files are generated, and the symbol names are derived from the MIT-licenced dotnet runtime packs. The macOS SDKs are then consulted to discover the library the symbol maps to (that's all) Explanation: github.com/slang25/AotA... Script to generate stubs: github.com/slang25/AotA...

@unixterminal.bsky.social FYI

Kevin Jones

@vcsjones.dev

Have you tried it with .NET 11? We introduced some interesting new CryptoKit things that maybe might make things a little more difficult. More symbols, at least.

Thanks, I have a drift detection workflow which includes the latest previews: github.com/slang25/AotA...

github.comGitHub - slang25/AotAnywhere: NuGet package to help you cross-compile Native AOT to different OSes/architecturesNuGet package to help you cross-compile Native AOT to different OSes/architectures - slang25/AotAnywhere

A link to the repo with further details: github.com/slang25/AotA...

I see it's using Zig for the cross-compilation toolchain, if you ever want to try using clang-llvm instead, let me know. I've got my own prebuilt distribution which I've used for cross-compilation of C/C++ and even Rust with cmake. We could get rid of the cmake part for NativeAOT in C#