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

[Martin Gerhardy]

Am 05.09.2012 22:45, schrieb Lothar May:
> Hi,
>
> sorry to bring up this rather old thread... I think I have some bad
> news with regard to this subject :-(.
>
> > Apple recently unbundled the SDKs (and Unix tools) from Xcode [1].
> > This is a much smaller download, but may be 10.7 only.
> These "command line code for xcode" are missing important stuff
> required for cross compiling. Well, at least I could not make it work
> :-( even libc.dylib seems to be missing.
>
> To get the complete SDK which is usable you need to download xcode.
> With that, I was able to cross compile a "hello world" test
> application.
>
> But there is a serious problem: The xcode license.
> http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/xcode.pdf
> The main issue:
> "Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted
> a limited, nonexclusive license to use the Developer Software on
> Apple-branded computers to develop and test application and other
> software."
>
> Mark the words "Apple-branded computers". Since the SDK is part of
> xcode... This means (to my knowledge, I am not a lawyer): You can only
> use cross compiling with this SDK if you install e.g. Linux on an
> Apple computer and then cross compile for Mac OS. Other usage would
> technically be violating the license.
>
> Regards,
> Lothar
Hi Lothar,

have you seen my post on this list about the debian packages for cross 
compiling for macosx?

here is the url again:

  https://launchpad.net/~flosoft/+archive/cross-apple

about the license issue - i don't think that this would be a problem for 
mxe, as you can't ensure where your users are executing the 
cross-compiling. but for me it would be fine to install a linux on my 
mac-mini to cross compile to windows, and macosx.

i would also be very much interested in your current work - do you have 
a fork of the git repo of mxe available somewhere?

greetings
martin