ardi via llvm-dev
2016-Apr-03 22:11 UTC
[llvm-dev] Any details I should know before trying to build on OS X Snow Leopard (Darwin 10) ?
Hi, One of my Macs is kept at 10.6.8 (with Xcode 3.2.6) because it's a system I still wish to support. However, I'd like to move to clang on it, if possible. I prefer to either install a precompiled binary distribution (if it exists) or compile it on my own, but for the moment I'd prefer to avoid installing it through macports. Looking at the LLVM releases downloads page, I see several downloads tagged "Darwin", but it doesn't specify what Darwin version is required for it to run (some of them say "Darwin 10.9", but is it Darwin 10.9 or OS X 10.9? On very older releases (the gcc front-end ones) I see Darwin10 binaries. I suppose there won't be any relatively recent binary distribution that I can use on Snow Leopard, so I guess I've to build it myself. In that case, should the 3.8.0 build out of the box? If not, is there any not too old release that would build out of the box? (when I say "out of the box", I mean that it passes all tests, and no custom patches are necessary). Thanks a lot in advance,
Bruce Hoult via llvm-dev
2016-Apr-04 10:30 UTC
[llvm-dev] Any details I should know before trying to build on OS X Snow Leopard (Darwin 10) ?
I'm not aware of any difficulty with an older OS such as 10.6.8 as such, but there is a pretty fundamental thing that recent Clang/LLVM source code uses features from C++11, which the existing compiler on a 10.6.8 machine won't support. Clang 3.4 supports C++11, but does not require it. Clang 3.5 and later requires a C++11 compiler. A quick internet search suggests that you can build Clang 3.4 with the system compiler on 10.6.8. Once you have a working Clang 3.4 you can build later Clang versions. I'm not 100% sure whether 3.4 implements C++11 sufficiently bug free to compile Clang 3.8. You could also of course look at installing/building a more recent gcc to build recent Clang with. Gcc 4.9 is the first version that does not label C++11 support as experimental. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:11 AM, ardi via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:> Hi, > > One of my Macs is kept at 10.6.8 (with Xcode 3.2.6) because it's a > system I still wish to support. However, I'd like to move to clang on > it, if possible. I prefer to either install a precompiled binary > distribution (if it exists) or compile it on my own, but for the > moment I'd prefer to avoid installing it through macports. > > Looking at the LLVM releases downloads page, I see several downloads > tagged "Darwin", but it doesn't specify what Darwin version is > required for it to run (some of them say "Darwin 10.9", but is it > Darwin 10.9 or OS X 10.9? On very older releases (the gcc front-end > ones) I see Darwin10 binaries. > > I suppose there won't be any relatively recent binary distribution > that I can use on Snow Leopard, so I guess I've to build it myself. In > that case, should the 3.8.0 build out of the box? If not, is there any > not too old release that would build out of the box? (when I say "out > of the box", I mean that it passes all tests, and no custom patches > are necessary). > > Thanks a lot in advance, > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20160404/b3a8bc11/attachment.html>
ardi via llvm-dev
2016-Apr-10 07:54 UTC
[llvm-dev] Any details I should know before trying to build on OS X Snow Leopard (Darwin 10) ?
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org> wrote: [...]> > Once you have a working Clang 3.4 you can build later Clang versions. I'm > not 100% sure whether 3.4 implements C++11 sufficiently bug free to compile > Clang 3.8.Thanks a lot, Bruce. Yes, I got 3.4.2 working, although it wasn't easy. I had to cross-compile from a OS X 10.11 machine back to 10.6, because the default gcc 4.2 in 10.6.8 wouldn't build llvm 3.4.2. Then I ran the test suite on 10.6.8 and it passed successfully. However, building llvm 3.8.0 on OS X 10.6.8 is quite a different story, even if you have a working 3.4.2 installation. It seems development is done always in cutting-edge OS versions. But I don't surrender, I'm fighting to get it working. Thanks!
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