Greetings!

"Chun Tian (binghe)" <binghe.l...@gmail.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> On 04/03/25 03:50, Camm Maguire wrote:
>> Greetings!
>> 
>> Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Greetings, and thanks as always for your very helpful feedback!
>>>
>>> "Chun Tian (binghe)" <binghe.l...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> The ARM Mac hardware running recent macOS is always available from Apple at
>>>> affordable prices. If Camm need some financial support, it will be my 
>>>> pleasure
>>>> to purchase one from Apple and ship to his home address (in US? I guess). 
>>>> Please
>>>> contact me in private if you need. I don't fully understand GCL's source 
>>>> code
>>>> but I can do this for sure!
>>>
>> 
>> Regarding mac arm support, which as you state appears to be the future,
>> unless the macho file format has changed, we need just one file
>> describing the relocs, h/mach64_arm_reloc.h.  I feel reasonably
>> confident I can produce this in an hour or two with access.
>>

Thinking about this a bit more, it does seem that Rosetta will allow us
to focus on x86_64 for the foreseeable future, no?

>> Regarding macports, I've found and fixed the gcc build error.  This
>> should standardize things with non-mac builds considerably.
>
> Great work. I assume this is all done for GCL 2.7.0 in recent commits on Git.
> How about the building of GCL 2.6.15 in your macOS 10.13 VM?

Yes.  Will backport and test 2.6.15pre and report when done.

>
>> 
>> For posterity, gdb needs to be run under sudo, and with set
>> startup-with-shell off.
>> 
>> Are you still involved with macports?
>
> I'm investigating the existing port definitions of the "gcl" package in 
> MacPorts
> (current version is 2.6.14). I hope to submit the merge request soon for both
> GCL 2.6 and 2.7, e.g. the new package "gcl" is for 2.7, and "gcl26" is for 
> GCL 2.6.
>

Fantastic!  I had cloned the macports git repository and was considering
editing that portfile myself if needed, but if this is easy for you it
would surely save time.

Take care,

>> 
>> Take care,
>> 
>

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Camm Maguire                                        c...@maguirefamily.org
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