So far, cross-compiling from Linux to Windows has been awesome, thanks to LDC2's awesome cross-compiling capabilities. All I needed to do was to download the Windows ldc2 release, edit ldc2.conf to point to it, then compile with -mtriple=x86_64-windows-msvc, and it magically all works.

However, I'm having a tougher time cross-compiling to OSX... downloaded the ldc2 osx release, setup ldc2.conf, and compile with -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin, but it appears to be trying to invoke my local Linux linker, which chokes on the OSX object file format and dies horribly. :-P  I'm guessing I need to somehow install an OSX toolchain for this to work?


T

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On 2020-02-04 20:30, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> So far, cross-compiling from Linux to Windows has been awesome, thanks
> to LDC2's awesome cross-compiling capabilities. All I needed to do was
> to download the Windows ldc2 release, edit ldc2.conf to point to it,
> then compile with -mtriple=x86_64-windows-msvc, and it magically all
> works.
> 
> However, I'm having a tougher time cross-compiling to OSX... downloaded
> the ldc2 osx release, setup ldc2.conf, and compile with
> -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin, but it appears to be trying to invoke my
> local Linux linker, which chokes on the OSX object file format and dies
> horribly. :-P  I'm guessing I need to somehow install an OSX toolchain
> for this to work?

Here's a Dockerfile that can cross-compile to macOS [1]. You might want to update to a newer version of LDC. You can do that when building the Docker image using the `--build-arg` flag.

Note, the SDK is pulled from someones Dropbox account (in the base image multiarch/crossbuild).

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/docker-ldc-darwin/blob/master/Dockerfile

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On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 19:30:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> So far, cross-compiling from Linux to Windows has been awesome, thanks to LDC2's awesome cross-compiling capabilities. All I needed to do was to download the Windows ldc2 release, edit ldc2.conf to point to it, then compile with -mtriple=x86_64-windows-msvc, and it magically all works.
>
> However, I'm having a tougher time cross-compiling to OSX... downloaded the ldc2 osx release, setup ldc2.conf, and compile with -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin, but it appears to be trying to invoke my local Linux linker, which chokes on the OSX object file format and dies horribly. :-P  I'm guessing I need to somehow install an OSX toolchain for this to work?
>
>
> T

In case you have an open source project you also could have a look at Github Actions. It should allow you to compile your project for free to MacOS.

Kind regards
Andre

On 2020-02-04 22:19, Andre Pany wrote:

> In case you have an open source project you also could have a look at Github Actions. It should allow you to compile your project for free to MacOS.

Yes. Assuming it's a public project it should definitely have a CI pipeline. Travis CI, Azure Pipelines and Circle CI also support macOS. Then of course, one should probably do some manual testing on the target platform as well. So I'm not so sure how much gain it is to cross-compile.

I created the Docker images for work, were we had self hosted GitLab and were building using GitLab CI runners hosted on Linux machines.

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