Re: Patch to compile grub2 with Apple compiler

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 07.04.2014 22:34, SevenBits wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 03:52 PM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> On 07.04.2014 17:04, SevenBits wrote:
>>> On Monday, April 7, 2014, Yves Blusseau <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this is a patch to allow compilation of grub2 with Apple
>>> Compiler
>>>
>>>
>>> Haven't looked at it yet, but if it works, I'd be major.
>> GRUB was compilable under Apple compiler since quite a long time.
>> But nobody cared about it and nobody reported problems so it broke
>> again. If you care about Apple, then report problems, preferably
>> with patch
> 
> Well... the issue is that Apple's compiler cannot build executables in
> anything except OS X's native Mach-O format. This obviously rules out
> one of GRUB's supported platforms (EFI) which requires PE binaries,
> unless we're going to ship (or require as a build dependency) a tool
> that can convert between the various object formats.
> 
We use objconv.
> I'm not very knowledgeable about GRUB for non-EFI platforms, as EFI is
> my main focus for when I use GRUB. But Apple's compiler is finicky in
> general
This is not a GRUB problem

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