Re: cross compile to MacOS

[Zach Bacon]

In theory, yes it's possible but like what Robert mention, it's a 
different beast than targeting windows platforms and to be honest I 
don't think it would be beneficial to work on such a solution, 
especially where you run into issues where you need to ensure the binary 
can work and without a working macOS platform to test that sort of 
thing, honestly I think a lot of compilation tests could potentially 
fail because of that. At least targeting windows platforms using mxe you 
have things like wine to test your binaries on.

On 2020-11-21 2:18 p.m., Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:58:23 +0100 Valerio Messina <efa@iol.it> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > I'm using MXE with satisfaction and can generate for Win32 and 64.
> >
> > I want to cross compile my CLI, SDL and GTK applications for MacOS too.
> > I looked around and found some cross-compiler for MacOS, but all require
> > to download and install the Apple SDK (many GB), and some are not
> > maintained anymore.
> >
> > Reading the MXE Introduction say it can cross compile for various target
> > platforms, but as now seem only Win32 and Win64 are supported.
> > Since CLI, SDL and GTK are natively cross-platform, and MacOS is quite
> > similar to Linux (it is already supported as host), I hope no Apple SDK
> > is needed.
> MacOSX is layered on BSD (a variant called Darwin), which is POSIX (like
> Linux).  Apple is rather protective of MacOSX, patitularly the non-free
> parts.
>
> > Are there any chance that MXE will extended to support MacOS as target?
> Highly unlikely -- MacOSX is a very different animal from Win32 and Win64. To
> have any chance of properly supporting MacOSX, partularly the current version,
> you will have to get an actual Mac -- most likely you option is get a MacMini,
> which can be networked and ssh'ed into from a Linux machine (shell / CLI
> access) and/or use a VNCViewer if you need to use the MacOSX GUI (eg testing
> GTK apps). And running MacOSX in a virtual machine is a very tricky business
> -- said to be possible, but you need to first create a virtual "Hackintosh",
> which is somewhat non-tivial.
>
> The build tools for MacOSX are freely available from Apple, but they are only
> meant to run on an actual Mac.
>
> > thank you for this good software,