[cfe-commits] [libcxx] r167490 - /libcxx/trunk/www/index.html

[Charles Davis]

On Nov 10, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Jonathan Sauer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>>>> -  <p>To build on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you need a helper library and header 
>>>> -    <a href="http://home.roadrunner.com/~hinnant/libcppabi.zip">found here</a>.
>>>> -    cp cxxabi.h to /usr/include, and cp libc++abi.dylib to /usr/lib.  On Mac OS
>>>> -    X 10.7 (Lion) and later, this helper library and header are already installed
>>>> -    for you.
>>> 
>>> Is the helper library/header no longer necessary on 10.6?
>> 
>> It is still needed.  I don't think people should be using it.  It was never officially supported.  I hung it off my personal website in desperation several years ago when that was the best option.  It no longer is.  The best option is to upgrade your OS.
> 
> Not everybody has the option or wants to upgrade their OS, and I don't think that the helper library
> being unsupported is a reason to remove above text. Of course I can only speak for myself, but in the
> ca. two years of using it I never had any problems with it. If you don't want to host it any longer, it
> should be possible to add it to LLVM's SVN so it can still be used by those who want to use libc++ on
> OS 10.6 or earlier.
Or... you can build the LLVM libc++abi yourself. Works pretty well for me :).

Chip

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> Jonathan
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