cross-compiling mac files from a linux machine

(Flames) #1

I was wondering if this is possible, and if so how to do it?

(Discovery) #2

Well JayBird bought a MAC for it, so I think it is not possible. Really just a guess though.

(kamikazee) #3

Nobody ever took the time to create cross-compiler for Mac running in Linux. The problem is that you’d need to reverse-engineer the Mac C libraries because those differ quite a lot from the GNU libraries.

So you’ll have to ask someone with a Mac to compile it for you, or buy yourself a Mac Mini. (Bani did, if I’m not mistaken.)

(Elite) #4

It’s tricky. You still need a copy of the Mac OS, and then you need to get a Mac emulator (google it, easy find). There are many programs to emulate a Mac on WIndows/Linux, all you really need are the headers from the OS.

Otherwise just get someone to pull you in a favour (I would suggest when you get everything working just fine before your final release, they won’t want to compile it 50 times :slight_smile: )

(bani) #5

not possible. just buy a mini.

(Elite) #6

Yes, it is now possible…

http://ranger.befunk.com/fink/darwin-cross/

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He has a good point though, you can get a good enough Mac on Ebay for 30 bucks (not joking, they are really quite cheap if you just look and wait for a week or two).

(bani) #7

this doesnt do what you think it does. you still need a mac.

(Elite) #8

Combined with mac emulator:
http://www.emulators.com/
http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/macintosh.shtml

One I actually heard something about that sounded not half bad:
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

Maybe these help the cause??

(bani) #9

not quite.

http://www.emulators.com/ emulates this:

pearpc is unusably slow (1/500 native speed). you still need to buy osx ($130).

(Elite) #10

Allright you win :slight_smile: