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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> 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.

Yes this is right.  I checked the darwinx-gcc package that I built
before, and it did use Apple's GCC, not upstream GCC.

http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-misc.cgi/fedora-mingw--devel/file/tip/darwinx-gcc/darwinx-gcc.spec#l1

Rich.

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