ld on snow leopard

[brodeur235]

Trying to setup a dev environment on my mac os... It is darwin after all, so i figured unix tools would not be a problem. Nasm is not. ld apparently is. Here is the situation:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775426

If you didn't already see it in that thread, I tried to build binutils right from the source on snow leopard but I got a "darwin target not compatible" (or something of the sort) error.

Help appreciated,

Brodeur235

[NickJohnson]

I think OSX/Darwin uses the Mach-O binary format (b/c it is Mach based) instead of ELF. You should build a cross compiler for an ELF target.

[Brynet-Inc]

You are attempting to compile a very old version of binutils in that screenshot, you like many others can't seem to read the output of an FTP directory listing.

The latest version is binutils-2.19.1, it may or may not support "Snow Leopard" out of the box.. you'll probably just have to modify the build scripts if it doesn't.

[Firestryke31]

IIRC the "ld" that the Apple compiler uses is actually the LLVM-ld for i686-apple-darwin9 (or something like that). I know this because there is practically no other "official" Mach-O capable binutils. For Snow Leopard it might be darwin10 instead of darwin9, and I'm 75% confident that if you decide to build the LLVM suite yourself, i686-pc-darwin9 will work just as well.