[news.eclipse.dsdp.rtsc] Re: XDC on Mac OS X

[dave russo <d-russo@xxxxxx>]

Amichi Amar wrote:
> Alright, i'll take a crack at this and post back what results.
On interesting "complication" is that we typically build _everything_ 
from a Linux server - including the Windows and Solaris binaries. 
Rather than creating a cross compiler for Windows that runs on Linux, we 
have targets that rsh the compile command to a machine that can run a 
native compiler.

The gnu.targets.ITarget meta-module does this "transparently" if you set 
the remoteHost configuration parameter; see 
http://rtsc.eclipse.org/cdoc-tip/index.html#gnu/targets/ITarget.html#remote.Host 
and the gnu/targets/ITarget.xs implementation.

Don't let this block you if it becomes to convoluted.  It might be 
sufficient to assume the build will occur from OS X.  If we can use this 
technique, however, we might be able to include OS X support in our 
"normal" builds.


> Thanks.
>
> Amichi