iOS cross compiling support

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Jan 29 08:03:23 PST 2011


On 2011-1-29 22:40 , Anders F Björklund wrote:
> There was some partial cross-compiling support with the old Universal support, for instance for cross-compiling from Tiger/i386 to Panther/ppc, but it never worked very well and thus was ripped out. And after the "config.guess" discussion about Snow Leopard returning i386 on x86_64 systems, I don't think anyone is very eager on taking it up again...

Targeting other Mac OS X versions actually now works better than it ever
did. (Still unsupported and unreliable though.) However that's quite
different to conventional cross compiling, which we currently don't have
any way of doing.

- Josh


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