Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-doc.texi: Add information on compiling source code on Mac OS X

[Programmingkid]

On Aug 7, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 7 August 2015 at 21:32, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 7, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> (https://trac.macports.org/wiki/UsingTheRightCompiler
>>> suggests that XCode 3.2 for OSX 10.6 provided a non-default
>>> 'clang'; I don't have a 10.6 + 3.2 system to check whether that
>>> clang will build QEMU though. If it does then we should
>>> recommend using it rather than building gcc. 10.5 users
>>> are definitely stuck with finding or building a non-Apple
>>> compiler, though.)
>> 
>> I just checked and my system does include clang. Didn't even know
>> about it. Too bad it didn't work to compile QEMU. It doesn't support
>> Thread-Local Storage. It is probably too old (version 3.0).
> 
> Thanks for testing that -- you're running OSX 10.6, right?
Yes.

> I guess the TLS stuff got added to clang for the version
> that's in Xcode 4.2. So it looks like we have a fairly
> straightforward
> * 10.5 and 10.6 -> compile a gcc or download a third-party build
> * 10.7 and above -> use Xcode's clang
> division.

Sounds right.