On May 11, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Andrew Church wrote:
In the short run, and perhaps the long, this likely means we're not
going to see free software's assembly code compile at all on OSX.
Views?
mv /usr/bin/as /usr/bin/silly-as
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.17.tar.gz
tar xzvfp binutils-2.17.tar.gz
cd binutils-2.17
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
;)
If only it were that simple. If you look through the configuration
files for binutils, it clearly shows that gas, ld and a few other
binaries are not part of the build process on darwin/osx. Those
utilities don't know how to handle or output Apple's mach-o binary
format. This is nontrivial to port; many have tried but none have yet
succeeded.
cr
