Apple cctools and ld64 port for Linux, *BSD and macOS
Current Version: cctools: 949.0.1, ld64: 530.
Originally ported by cjacker.
SUPPORTED HOSTS
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS:
Linux, Android (Termux), FreeBSD,
Mac OS X, iOS, OpenBSD and NetBSD
SUPPORTED HOST ARCHITECTURES:
x86, x86_64, arm, arm64/aarch64
SUPPORTED TARGET ARCHITECTURES
armv6, armv7, armv7s, arm64, arm64e,
arm64_32 (untested), i386, x86_64, x86_64h,
armv6m, armv7k, armv7m and armv7em
arm64e requires Apple LLVM/Clang.
SUPPORTED TARGET OPERATING SYSTEMS
macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, bridgeOS, Mac Catalyst,
iOS Simluator, watchOS Simulator, DriverKit
Not all of the targets have been tested.
DEPENDENCIES
Clang 3.4+
SDKs with .tdb stubs (>= Xcode 7) require the TAPI library to be installed.
=> https://github.com/tpoechtrager/apple-libtapi
musl-libc based systems require the musl-fts library to be installed. => https://github.com/pullmoll/musl-fts
Optional, but recommended:
llvm-devel
(For Link Time Optimization Support)
uuid-devel
(For ld64 -random_uuid
Support)
llvm-devel
+ xar-devel
(For ld64 -bitcode_bundle
Support)
You can find xar here.
Do not install libxar-dev on Ubuntu, it's a different package.
INSTALLATION
Install Apple's TAPI library:
This step is only required if you intend to use SDKs with .tdb stubs.
git clone https://github.com/tpoechtrager/apple-libtapi.git
cd apple-libtapi
[INSTALLPREFIX=/home/user/cctools] ./build.sh
./install.sh
Install cctools and ld64:
git clone https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port.git
cd cctools-port/cctools
./configure \
[--prefix=/home/user/cctools] \
[--with-libtapi=/home/user/cctools] \
[--target=<target>] \
[--with-llvm-config=...]
make
make install
target = i386-apple-darwin11
, x86_64-apple-darwin11
, arm-apple-darwin11
, ...
If you get compile errors because of unistd.h
, then please run
../tools/fix_unistd_issue.sh
and restart compiling.