crosstool OS X host -> i686/linux target ?

[Kai Ruottu]

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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