FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Cross compiling on Mac OS X

["Morgan Howe" <mthowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/9/07, Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2007-05-09 at 02:32:56 [+0200], Brian Jung Myeng Lee <jm3lee@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > First, thank you Morgan. :-)
> >
> > Here's some update. I managed to compile a cross compiler. However, I
> > haven't verified that it works properly. Now I'm in the process of
> > figuring out how to build Haiku with a cross compiler. I am hoping
> > that this will tell me if the cross compiler is working. I supposed I
> > could build GCC test suite as well.
>
> Building the cross-compiler should be easy actually. Haiku's configure
> script does that, and, if I understood Morgan correctly, that worked
> without changes on MacOS.
IIRC, the only change was adding the darwin target.

> > I haven't done this kind of work before. So I can't comment much on
> > details until I learn more. I haven't quite figured out how GCC build
> > system works and platform dependent source code works. I do plan to
> > look around and figure out what they are supposed to do.
> >
> > Hopefully with some amount of random head-butting and hacking, things
> > will work. ;-)
Sounds good.  We can bumble through it together then.  :)  I probably
only have about a 2 week head start, so you should be up to speed
quickly.  :)

> Morgan already proposed some changes. I haven't applied them to our
> repository, since I guessed it would be smarter to apply a patch that would
> include all changes in the end. If it's easier for you to work together, I
> can apply the intermediate patches, too, though. If you want me to do that,
> it would be nice, if I could get a patch including all changes so far (the
> <size_t.h> change wouldn't be necessary anymore).
I will have to look back through and see what changes I had made and
see what needs to be patched.  I believe I had gotten things building
but was having problems with the linking step.

Brian, I don't know if you have done this already or not, but I do
have one *very* important piece of advice.  You cannot build haiku
under a normal directory like you would under linux.  Since MacOS is
case-preserving but NOT case-sensitive, you will run into endless
headaches.  You'll need to use the disk utility to create an image
with a case sensitive file system large enough to do any of the haiku
work you plan to do.

For example - I have a 4.4 GB image with file system type of Mac OS
Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled) which I mount any time I work on
Haiku.

If you are already part way through the build process, you may have
done this, but its worth a reminder.  :)

Morgan