Mac OS X cross-compiler coming soon to a Fedora near you (or maybe not?)

[Erik van Pienbroek]

Op maandag 15-06-2009 om 16:08 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Farkas
Levente:
> Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In the last two weeks I've been experimenting with getting a Mac OS X
> > cross-compiler operational on Fedora. This was done according to
> > documentation [1] which Richard W.M. Jones mentioned [2] on the mailing
> > list some weeks ago.
> 
> just 2 quick questions:
> - wouldn't we like to merge all 3 platform (mingw32, mingw64, darwin)
> into a common name and package set as discussed earlier?

Looks like a good idea to me

> - why not use the same gcc on all platform? ie. gcc-4.4. isn't it build
> on darwin?

The GCC used by Apple is a forked version of GCC which Apple also
maintains. I don't think that all the Apple changes are upstreamed.. I
could try creating a GCC 4.4 version of the i686-apple-darwin9 compiler,
but I fear it won't be possible.

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek