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Macports development for PowerPC (10.4, 10.5, 10.6): [unofficial] invitation to cooperate
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What is the latest version of clang we've successfully built on macports so far?
Edit: on powerpc
Edit: on powerpc
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You mean on ppc? There is no point to build any, they do not work. There is no general advantage either even if they did work: in many cases older systems with gcc perform better than < 10.9 with clangs (if not later).
LLVM and libc++ could be more sensible, but for both the best we got at the moment is 7.x.
llvm-powerpc: new port in lang by barracuda156 · Pull Request #23402 · macports/macports-ports
Description Second part of LLVM-7.1.1 for PowerPC. As before, the port is restricted to < 11 and ppc ppc64. Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 10.5.8 ppc64 Xcode 3.1.4 m...
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Install libcxx-powerpc on macOS with MacPorts
To the question itself: I think Ken has built clang-5.0 on 10.5 back then (and concluded it is useless), and the latest which is buildable is arguably Iain’s 7.1.1, but he also says in REAME of the repo that it produces wrong code for PPC.
With this in mind, I never bothered to build these: it will take effort to sort the build out, and in result you get ABI-inconsistent compiler which is unusable, at the very best
Iain planned to release llvm-11 with his fixes (maybe clang-11 too, I do not remember exactly), so if that happens, maybe something of utility will be there. This is not something I am ready to deal with on my own.
What can be potentially useful – but gonna require a lot of testing – is switching to libc++ on PowerPC. It will not work out of the box now, but if anyone wants to experiment, you will need the following:
1. Install libcxx-powerpc port. This corresponds to libc++ from llvm-7 with some improvements. So it is pretty old, though it is newer than what Macports installs on 10.6.8 Intel now.
2. Install https://github.com/barracuda156/macports-ports-powerpc/tree/Snow-PowerPC/lang/gcc-powerpc
Or gcc12, but modify stdlib_flag variant to use libcxx-powerpc headers.
Do not use gcc13, including that from my repo, it will not work now with libc++ (it does not work on Intel either due to a bug in gcc13, which has been fixed since then, but not in Macports).
If you use gcc-powerpc, update Macports base to https://github.com/barracuda156/macports-base-10A190/tree/gcc-powerpc
And pick fixed portgoups from https://github.com/barracuda156/macports-ports-powerpc/tree/gcc_move
3. Modify macports.conf to use libc++.
4. Either make sure to pass flags to link to libc++ and libc++abi where libcxx-powerpc installs them (see portfile) or move those to /opt/local/lib or /usr/lib (make sure you understand what you are doing here).
5. Have fun, you are the first person on the planet to use libc++ on macOS PowerPC
(Well, I did verify it can work in a simple isolated case, but AFAIK nobody tried to switch to libc++ for the port-tree as such.)
Does anyone happen to have a working Macports for ppc64 at the moment? I need to test something. At least gcc7 is required.
Some news:
abiword-x11 fixed for PowerPC (Word-like text processor)
glade fixed for PowerPC
abaddon added, work on PowerPC (Discord client)
FileZilla will work once this PR is merged
abiword-x11 fixed for PowerPC (Word-like text processor)
glade fixed for PowerPC
abaddon added, work on PowerPC (Discord client)
FileZilla will work once this PR is merged
How about you test this for us? )
I have no one to chat with there LOL
Channels work.
ok! when my g3 will finish to build I'll let you know!