[cfe-dev] libc++ on Mac OS X 10.6

Jean-Daniel Dupas devlists at shadowlab.org
Mon Oct 10 01:45:40 PDT 2011


Le 10 oct. 2011 à 10:17, Jonathan Sauer a écrit :

>>> When trying to use libc++ on a trunk clang on Mac OS X 10.6, I get:
>>> 
>>> /llvm-bin/bin/clang++ temp.cc -stdlib=libc++
>>> clang: error: invalid deployment target for -stdlib=libc++ (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later)
>>> 
>>> This used to work on 10.6. Was there a good reason for breaking this on 10.6, and is there any workaround?
>>> 
>>> I find this disappointing, as I had hoped the next release of clang, with libc++, would provide a good base-line C++0x compiler. However, I would really like not to require 10.7, as I know various people who do not intend to upgrade any time soon.
>> 
>> Sorry about that.  I've updated the instructions for building on 10.6.  Do:
>> 
>> $ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
>> 
>> prior to ./buildit
> 
> That seems to work for libc++. However, the problem persists when building an XCode project on 10.6:
> 
> | clang: error: invalid deployment target for -stdlib=libc++ (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later)
> 
> When I change the build variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.7, the project builds, but of course crashes on
> startup.
> 
> The TOT from last week worked perfectly. Is there a non-political (i.e. not Apple wanting people to ditch 10.6)
> reason for this change?
> 

The commit you're looking for is r141374 ( https://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&sortby=log&revision=141374 )

Until you got an official response, you can at least look at the changes, and patch your local clang copy to be able to continue to use clang/libc++ on 10.6.


-- Jean-Daniel








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