Maybe a stupid problem:

I have a running installation of Darwin 8.0 (x86) in a virtual machine (vmware). Can anyone give me some hints how to install the current snapshot of FPC in this environment. I was not able to locate a working FPC 2.0 binary for Darwin (x86) to compile the current compiler sources.

Many thanks in advance,
Werner

ftp://ftpmaster.freepascal.org/fpc/beta/2.1.4/source/ fpc-2.1.4.universal-darwin.bootstrap.tar.bz2

Jonas

Many thanks for this link.

Unfortunately 'ppcuniversal -h' raises the following error message on my darwin 8.0.1 x86 machine:

/bin/ppcuniversal: Bad executable (or shared library)

Any ideas what's going wrong?

Many thanks in advance,
Werner

Maybe plain darwin doesn't support universal binaries (although that would be strange, since multi-arch support is a basic feature of the mach-o format). If you have lipo available, you can try to use it to extract the i386 binary.

Jonas

Hi Jonas,

I have extracted the i386 binary as recommended:

lipo ppcuniversal -extract i386 -output ppc386

Unfortunately <ppc386 -h> gives the same error message :-(

/bin/ppc386: Bad executable (or shared library)

Best regards,
Werner

You probably need a newer version of darwin/x86:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-x86/2007/Jul/msg00015.html

Jonas

You probably need a newer version of darwin/x86: http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-x86/2007/Jul/msg00015.html

I have updated the kernel, clib and gcc:

-> Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.0: root:xnu-792.17.14/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386

The problem is the same:
/bin/ppcuniversal: Bad executable (or shared library)

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Therefore I have tried to build a new compiler via cross compilation (linux -> darwin):

1. I have downloaded odcctools from
<http://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/linux-mac-cross/>

2. I have unpacked odcctools-20060413-gcc-5247-bin.tar.bz2

3. I have included the folder /opt/mac/bin to the search path

4. I have tried to compile fpc as follows:

make OS_TARGET=darwin all BINUTILSPREFIX=i686-apple-darwin8- OPT="-Xd -Fl$HOME/odcctools/opt/mac/lib"

The following files are reported as missing:

libc.dylib
crt1.o

After copying these files from the darwin machine to the linux machine I was able to built fpc.

Unfortunately the generated ppc386 still does not work on the darwin machine.

'file ppc386' gives "ppc386: Mach-0 executable i386"

but

'ppc386 -h' gives "Illegal instruction"

Any ideas what's going wrong here?

Has anyone ever make FPC running on a pure darwin (not Mac OS X!) installation?

Many thanks in advance,

Werner