[Mingw-cross-env-list] OSX SDKs (was Separate build rules)

[Tony Theodore]

On 14 December 2011 06:43, Lothar May <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Well I would really like to have a Mac OS cross building environment,
> because the Mac builds for PokerTH are always such a pain...
>
> But - as they are such a pain, so will be creating the cross comp
> environment. I don't want to discourage you, but you have to consider
> the following:
>
> There are different SDKs available for 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, and you
> should not expect that e.g. 10.4 executables run on 10.7 - some libs
> won't even build using the 10.4 SDK because it is so bad... Then there
> are several combinations: PPC, x86, x86_64, and all along with the
> different SDKs. PPC won't run on 10.7, and there are even problems
> building x86 using 10.5 SDK and running on 10.7. I was so frustrated
> with this that now I only support the last two versions (10.6 and
> 10.7) using x86_64, and this works quite OK.
>
> So maybe it would be better to define the limits early on, i.e. which
> versions are supported and which machine targets...
>
> But, as I said, a cross building environment for Mac would be very welcome 
> :-).

Apple recently unbundled the SDKs (and Unix tools) from Xcode [1].
This is a much smaller download, but may be 10.7 only.

Cheers,

Tony

[1] http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html