https://github.com/yuvalino/apple_standalone_toolchains

Standalone toolchains creation tool for Apple products.
https://github.com/yuvalino/apple_standalone_toolchains

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Standalone toolchains creation tool for Apple products.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/yuvalino/apple_standalone_toolchains
• Owner: yuvalino
• Created: 2020-01-17T14:44:44.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-01-25T20:14:29.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-31T05:12:04.568Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Apple Standalone Toolchains

## Background

This tool is supposed provide an API similiar to Android NDK's standalone toolchain creation script.

It is based on [cctools-port](https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port).

Currently, the script is **highly linux-oriented**.

## Overview

Final output of this tool is a directory (set with `--install-dir`) that contains isolated set of tools that can be used to build binaries for MacOSX / iOS. For example, `clang` is going to be at `/bin/-apple-darwin11-clang`.

## Dependencies

- Python 3.7+ (with fstrings support)

## Making the toolchain

```bash

$ git clone [email protected]:yuvalino/apple_standalone_toolchains.git

$ cd apple_standalone_toolchains

$ git submodule update --init

$ ./make_standalone_toolchains.py

    --sdk *path to sdk archive or dir*

    --arch *{x86,x86_64,arm,arm64}*

    --install-dir *tools installation dir*

    [--min-version *minimum target macosx/ios version, default 10.6 for macosx and 4.0 for ios*]

    [--clang *clang executable to wrap, default 'clang'*]

    [--clangxx *clang++ executable to wrap, default '(--clang)++'*]

    [-v, -f]

```

Building usually takes 5-10 minutes.

If you want to see some output (else the building process is very non-informative) pass `-v`.

## Known Issues

Due to Apple's current strict limitations:

- `libc++` or any other basic library cannot be statically linked.

## Future Plans

- Especially compiled `libc++` with the latest C++ library features (tuple, optional, etc).

- Perhaps use `llvm-lld` instead of `cctools-port` when TAPI (`.tbd` files) are supported with `llvm`.