Re: update: cross compiling Octave for MinGW systems

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 13, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 13 December 2012 15:03, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 4:18 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> 
>>> * see whether this approach will also work for cross compiling for
>>>   OS X systems.
>> 
>> I'd be interested in helping with this (testing) when the time comes.  
>> Perhaps I can build on Ubuntu (via VBOX) and then run on my MacOS X host?
> 
> I'm interested to know how this works. Don't you need a cross compiler
> from GNU into Mac OS X? Doesn't this mean you need to boot strap your
> own gcc?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.


I'm not sure I understand correctly, but ...

We do have gcc compilers on MacOS X.  What was need the Xcode stuff for are the 
system include files libraries.  I assume this is essentially the same as for 
Windows?

MacOS X will also need all the runtime dependencies.

Ben