Re: MXE on MacOS Host

[Tony Theodore]

Hi Mark,


> On 28 Oct 2022, at 9:52 am, Mark Hayden <markghayden@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a Windows Qt app I have been cross-compiling from MacOS using Qt.  For 
> several years, I’ve been unable to update MXE toolchain for MacOS host 
> because of various errors.  I’ve reported bugs and made some attempt to fix 
> the problems but new ones seem to keep recurring.
> 
> Does anyone have recent success getting MXE (including Qt libraries) building 
> on MacOS?  Any suggestions/pointers for this?
> 
> I’m planning to upgrade to an M1 (ARM) MacBook.  I just tried installing MXE 
> on blank Macbook from scratch and did not get very far.  Does anyone have 
> success with MXE on these?  Ideally, I’d like to the MXE toolchain to run 
> natively (ARM).
> 
> thanks, Mark

I’ve just replied to similar issue[1] with some notes on what used to work. If 
you haven’t updated to the latest release, you should be able to build qt5/6 
with the gcc12 plugin.

Cheers,

Tony


[1] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/2910