crosscompiling macports, how hard is it?

Dr. Ernie Prabhakar drernie at opendarwin.org
Wed Jan 3 09:02:53 PST 2007


I'd be interested!  It would nice if we could figure out some way to  
semi-automate at least part of that process...

On Jan 2, 2007, at 11:06 PM, John Labovitz wrote:

> I've successfully used a combination of lipo(1) and  
> install_name_tool(1) to build universal versions of MacPorts  
> libraries (built on separate PPC/Intel machines, alas) so that  
> everything the app needed lived in <app>/Contents/Frameworks.  I  
> used install_name_tool to change any links to, eg, /opt/local so  
> the linker would resolve them within the app bundle instead.
>
> This was for a client, so I can't post the actual script, but if  
> anyone's interested, I could probably write up a distilled version  
> of what I did.  It really wasn't very difficult.
>
> --John
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