Re: MXE on MacOS Host

[Mark Hayden]

HI Tony,

Thank you very much for getting back to me.

Like magic, the MXE build on MacOS started working on my new Macbook.  I think 
there must have been something about my configuration on the old Macbook 
preventing the builds from working.  The strange thing is that at various 
times, I had tried building MXE on a fresh MacOS installation and they had not 
worked.  If I see this recur, I will dig into it further.

I’m very happy to have toolchains back up to date.

best, Mark

> On Oct 30, 2022, at 8:09 AM, Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> wrote:
> 
> 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