[cfe-dev] Build on Mac OS X

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 3 23:24:59 PDT 2011


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:09:54AM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> On May 29, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I'm trying to build LLVM+clang on a Mac Mini G4 with OS X 10.4.11:
> > Darwin user-users-mac-mini.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0:
> > Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
> > Macintosh powerpc
> > 
> > with
> > GCC 4.5.2 from Mac Ports:
> ...
> > 
> > What could be the problem?
> 
> 
> Hi Csaba,
> 
> I don't exactly know what's going on here, but you're very likely to run into several problems with this configuration:
> 
> 1. Clang doesn't have real powerpc support.

Well, powerpc (both 32 and 64bit) support is good enough that we can compile a
running "ls" and "sh" on FreeBSD (with a few hack to remove darwinisms).

So it's not completely broken either.



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