build: add -fPIC for musl targets #10198
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Adds
-fPICflag for musl targets when building highway and simdutf C++ dependencies, matching the existing freebsd behavior.What is PIC?
Position Independent Code (PIC) generates machine code using relative addresses instead of absolute ones, allowing the code to be loaded at any memory address. This is required when linking static libraries into shared libraries (.so files).
Why both freebsd and musl need it
Both freebsd and musl use strict relocation policies that reject non-PIC code in shared libraries. Without
-fPIC, linking fails with errors like:glibc is more permissive and handles these relocations at runtime, which is why linux-gnu targets work without this flag.
Context
This enables cross-compiling ghostty-vt to musl/Alpine Linux targets. Discovered while integrating ghostty-vt into opentui: anomalyco/opentui#440
This PR was created with help from Claude Opus 4.5.