Re: GSoC: Improve binary packaging on Mac OS X

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

On 5 August 2013 16:14, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am not a Mac user, so maybe my questions might seem lame to everyone. The
> Macports website says "We provide a single software tree that attempts to
> track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute ...
> targeting mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.8, A.K.A. Mountain Lion)
> and the immediately previous two (10.7, A.K.A. Lion and 10.6, A.K.A. Snow
> Leopard)." Doesn't this mean that we can get Octave's dependencies for
> different versions of Mac OS?

Yes, but the point of your project, as I understand it, was to make it
possible for anyone to build Octave and not depend on external package
management. MXE is supposed to do this.

In that case, we have to prepare a cross-build environment for darwin-x86 and darwin-ppc. I am not sure how to do that in MXE. Currently MXE supports only mingw32.

It's more than that. With the current MXE, you can (or should be able to) do:

- native MinGW

- cross MinGW

- native gnu-linux

- native MSVC

I think there's enough example in current MXE to get you started with native OS X.

Michael.