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Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:00:26 -0500 |
On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 10:00 +0100, c. wrote:
> I don't know whether cross-compiling for OSX is possible
> technically, but it is not legally possible AFAIK.
Indeed, the main obstacle is Apple's licensing; gcc already has the
right infrastructure in place if it can get the right libraries.
That's actually one of the nicest features of gcc that LLVM lacks: so
much more cross-platform portability.
MinGW solved this problem essentially by providing a free replacement
for enough of the Windows API to make this feasible. There appears to
be no real drive towards this goal for Mac OS X. I suspect that's
because for Windows the driving factor was the desire to have enough
of a Unix system to build a lot of free software for it. This is
already (more or less) provided by Mac OS X, so there's less
motivation.
- Jordi G. H.
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, jkr, 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, c., 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, Bradley Giesbrecht, 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, c., 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, Philip Nienhuis, 2014/11/26
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, c., 2014/11/27
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac,
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <=
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, Richard Stallman, 2014/11/30
- Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac, c., 2014/11/26