With every major update, change is inevitable. Here's what developers and packagers need to know to ensure a smooth transition.
Nevertheless, the legacy of cctools 65 endures. Every modern Apple linker (ld64, then the new Mach-O linker written in Swift) inherits the segment layout, the fat binary structure, and the symbol trie first stabilized in version 65. When you run otool -l on an iOS binary today, you are staring at the ghost of cctools 65.
What are you hosting your build pipeline on? Are you targeting macOS, iOS, or an embedded system ?
Projects like (which aims to bring LLVM’s optimizations to the 6502) and cc65 complement each other, but cc65 remains the most battle‑tested, feature‑complete solution for C and assembly development on these classic machines.
With every major update, change is inevitable. Here's what developers and packagers need to know to ensure a smooth transition.
Nevertheless, the legacy of cctools 65 endures. Every modern Apple linker (ld64, then the new Mach-O linker written in Swift) inherits the segment layout, the fat binary structure, and the symbol trie first stabilized in version 65. When you run otool -l on an iOS binary today, you are staring at the ghost of cctools 65.
What are you hosting your build pipeline on? Are you targeting macOS, iOS, or an embedded system ?
Projects like (which aims to bring LLVM’s optimizations to the 6502) and cc65 complement each other, but cc65 remains the most battle‑tested, feature‑complete solution for C and assembly development on these classic machines.