[fpc-devel] Testing FPC on PPC Mac

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 Feb 2015, at 12:17, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> /bin/mkdir -p powerpc/units/powerpc-darwin
> /usr/local/bin/ppcppc -Ur -Xs -O2 -n -Fupowerpc -Fusystems -Fu/usr/ 
> local/src/fpc/trunk-2.7.1-29398/rtl/units/powerpc-darwin -Fipowerpc - 
> FE. -FUpowerpc/units/powerpc-darwin -dRELEASE -V2.6.4 -O- -gl -Xs-    
> -dpowerpc -dGDB -dBROWSERLOG -Fuppcgen -Sew pp.pas
> /usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: -macosx_version_min
> An error occurred while linking
> pp.pas(244,13) Error: Error while linking
> pp.pas(244,13) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
>
> I presume that ld from Xcode 2.0 is slightly too old, and that that  
> flag isn't supported. Is there a way of accommodating this at the  
> command line, or is the only way by finding the flag in the build  
> files and disabling it?

Install Xcode 2.5, its linker should support that option. For  
instructions on how to get it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204824/where-can-i-download-xcode-for-mac-os-x-10-4


Jonas