[fpc-pascal] Cross Compiling from Linux to a Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 target. How?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Aug 1 12:13:30 CEST 2011


In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
> > The information on the FPC wiki and elsewhere in the lists is woefully
> > out of date.
> 
> In general, this is not supported (and personally I've never done it). You have to build an Apple tool chain (assembler, linker) on a Linux host, which is not supported by Apple, and then copy a Mac OS X SDK to your Linux machine. Additionally, for -Xg functionality (in combination with DWARF debug information) the dsymutil program is required, but since it's not open source it is definitely not possible to build it for Linux.
> 
> I think your best bet is to google general information about cross-compiling from Linux to Mac OS X. I think there is nothing FPC-specific about it, except for maybe pointing the compiler to the SDK (use the -XR command line parameter for that).

I did it with 10.4. The trouble is getting the toolchain to run. IIRC
Adriaan assisted me with that back then.



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