diff --git a/example/src/main.nub b/example/src/main.nub
index 8bf7d2e..d063ee0 100644
--- a/example/src/main.nub
+++ b/example/src/main.nub
@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@
 // c
 extern func puts(text: cstring)
 
+struct Human {
+    name: cstring
+    age: u32
+}
+
 func main(args: []cstring): i64
 {
-    puts("Hello, World")
+    let x: Human = struct {
+        name = "Oliver"
+        age = 23
+    } 
+
+    puts(x.name)
+
     return 0
 }
diff --git a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/NubLang.CLI.csproj b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/NubLang.CLI.csproj
index a686430..2f25112 100644
--- a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/NubLang.CLI.csproj
+++ b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/NubLang.CLI.csproj
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@
     </ItemGroup>
 
     <ItemGroup>
-      <None Remove="assets\libruntime_x64.a" />
-      <EmbeddedResource Include="assets\libruntime_x64.a" />
+      <None Remove="assets\runtime.o" />
+      <EmbeddedResource Include="assets\runtime.o" />
+      <None Remove="assets\x64.o" />
+      <EmbeddedResource Include="assets\x64.o" />
     </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/Program.cs b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/Program.cs
index 2b9f706..3f4f122 100644
--- a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/Program.cs
+++ b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/Program.cs
@@ -124,32 +124,38 @@ for (var i = 0; i < typedSyntaxTrees.Count; i++)
     objectFiles.Add(objFilePath);
 }
 
-const string runtimeName = "libruntime_x64.a";
-
 var resources = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames();
-var runtime = resources.First(r => r.EndsWith(runtimeName));
 
-await using var reader = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(runtime);
+string[] runtimeObjects = ["runtime.o", "x64.o"];
 
-if (reader == null)
+foreach (var runtimeObject in runtimeObjects)
 {
-    Console.Error.WriteLine($"Cannot open stream to '{runtimeName}'");
-    return 1;
+    var runtime = resources.First(r => r.EndsWith(runtimeObject));
+
+    await using var reader = Assembly
+        .GetExecutingAssembly()
+        .GetManifestResourceStream(runtime);
+
+    if (reader == null)
+    {
+        Console.Error.WriteLine($"Cannot open read stream to '{runtimeObject}'");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    var runtimePath = Path.Combine("build", "runtime", runtimeObject);
+    var runtimeDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(runtimePath);
+    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(runtimeDir))
+    {
+        Directory.CreateDirectory(runtimeDir);
+    }
+
+    await using var writer = new FileStream(runtimePath, FileMode.Create);
+
+    reader.CopyTo(writer);
+
+    objectFiles.Add(runtimePath);
 }
 
-var runtimePath = Path.Combine("build", "runtime", runtimeName);
-var runtimeDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(runtimePath);
-if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(runtimeDir))
-{
-    Directory.CreateDirectory(runtimeDir);
-}
-
-await using var writer = new FileStream(runtimePath, FileMode.Create);
-
-reader.CopyTo(writer);
-
-objectFiles.Add(runtimePath);
-
 var outPath = options.OutputPath ?? Path.Combine("build", "out.a");
 var outDir = Path.GetDirectoryName(outPath);
 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(outDir))
@@ -163,4 +169,5 @@ if (!archiveResult)
     return 1;
 }
 
+
 return 0;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/libruntime_x64.a b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/runtime.o
similarity index 55%
rename from src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/libruntime_x64.a
rename to src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/runtime.o
index d43a568..26e4678 100644
Binary files a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/libruntime_x64.a and b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/runtime.o differ
diff --git a/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/x64.o b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/x64.o
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4f53cd
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/compiler/NubLang.CLI/assets/x64.o differ
diff --git a/src/compiler/NubLang/Generation/QBE/QBEGenerator.cs b/src/compiler/NubLang/Generation/QBE/QBEGenerator.cs
index af0acbd..4734cdc 100644
--- a/src/compiler/NubLang/Generation/QBE/QBEGenerator.cs
+++ b/src/compiler/NubLang/Generation/QBE/QBEGenerator.cs
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ public class QBEGenerator
         {
             destination = TmpName();
             var size = SizeOf(structInitializer.StructType);
-            _writer.Indented($"{destination} =l alloc8 {size}");
+            _writer.Indented($"{destination} =l call $malloc(l {size})");
         }
 
         foreach (var field in structDef.Fields)
diff --git a/src/runtime/.gitignore b/src/runtime/.gitignore
index 4c66b30..378eac2 100644
--- a/src/runtime/.gitignore
+++ b/src/runtime/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-bin
-bin-int
\ No newline at end of file
+build
diff --git a/src/runtime/makefile b/src/runtime/makefile
index d868586..ef774d8 100644
--- a/src/runtime/makefile
+++ b/src/runtime/makefile
@@ -3,14 +3,12 @@ TARGET ?= x64
 
 CFLAGS = -Wall -Werror -Wextra -g
 
-libruntime: bin-int/runtime.o
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c targets/$(TARGET).s -o bin-int/$(TARGET).o
-	mkdir -p bin
-	ar rcs bin/libruntime_$(TARGET).a bin-int/runtime.o bin-int/$(TARGET).o
+libruntime: build/runtime.o
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c targets/$(TARGET).s -o build/$(TARGET).o
 
-bin-int/runtime.o: runtime/runtime.c
-	mkdir -p bin-int
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c runtime/runtime.c -o bin-int/runtime.o
+build/runtime.o: runtime/runtime.c
+	mkdir -p build
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c runtime/runtime.c -o build/runtime.o
 
 clean:
-	rm -r bin bin-int
+	rm -r build