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Re: crosstool OS X host -> i686/linux target ?


Kai Ruottu kirjoitti:

Just some questions... How people avoid using Apple's own machines when producing
apps for MacOS X ? By cross-compiling or how? How many have cross-GCCs for
MacOS X hosted on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and such "free Unices"?

If quoting a message found with Google for this issue :


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Like another poster pointed out, it sounds like the system includes and libraries are the
stumbling block here. They're copyright Apple and even trying to fudge it (e.g. NFS
export via gigabit ethernet so there's no permanent copy on another machine) doesn't
get around the problem that the incs/libs are for use on the machine they were shipped
with and not another box - I think this completely rules out cross-compilation w.r.t.
Mac OS X.


Posted by: Richard Lloyd at March 17, 2005 02:23 AM
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it becomes clear why working with MacOS X targeted uptodate 'as' and 'ld' has not
much motivation.... MacOS X is not in any way "free" but a proprietary and heavily
copyrighted target. Not so many system makers try to disable people doing cross-
development for their systems.





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