How to cross compile Apple Silicon target under Intel Apple computer ?

[Gilles Caulier]

Ken,

I second you. My computer is ready to cross compile the whole digiKam
bundle for Silicon target.

Note : from scratch, compiling the bundle for Intel took around 8
hours on my Macbook Pro 2015. After installing low level dependencies
from Macports, i compile KF5 framework, digiKAm and plugins, and the
last stage is to relocate, cleanup, and package the bundle for
production. All is done mostly with cmake and top level bash scripts
written by me.

And I can confirm that cross compiling for Silicon under Intel is
currently broken to cmake port (:-)))...

My best

Gilles Caulier


Le mer. 27 janv. 2021 à 22:45, Ken Cunningham
<ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> This right here is MacPorts golden opportunity again.
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> If we put some effort into this, to finish up the minor tweaks, MacPorts is the only game in town for this.
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> I have been fixing these as you all have seen, as I come across them.
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> But it would be great if people with BIgSur installed a copy of MacPorts into /opt/universal and just started building things.
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> Next on my list is cmake, which has no need to be universal in 99% of cases in the first place, so we should fix that in the cmake Portfile.
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> Ken