Hello, Christoph:
On 2025-07-22 00:48, Christoph Kukulies via macports-users wrote:
I'm in the situation - maybe there is a solution using macports - that I
need the
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toolchain.
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are asking. Let me see if I
can figure it out.
You include this big table, but from the "<<<" arrow, I think you are
asking, how do I build the "gnu-devtools-for-arm" project for just the
one combination of:
Build: macOS (x86_64), Host: macOS (x86_64), Target: arm-none-eabi
And,
As of https://gitlab.arm.com/tooling/gnu-devtools-for-arm/-/blob/main/
README.md
homebrew is heavily involved.
What choices are there?
You see that the "gnu-devtools-for-arm" project supplies build
instructions, which require you to gather a lot of tools, from autoconf
to zlib1g-dev. But the macOS part of the instructions only say how to
gather those tools using homebrew.
I think you are asking, can I gather those tools using MacPorts? If so, how?
If I understand you correctly, then I think the answer is: Maybe,
probably, but you will have to figure out how. Maybe there will be some
obstacles which you have to figure out.
You are in the same situation as the person who wrote those instructions
for macOS. Except they had to figure out how to gather the tools using
homebrew, and you have to figure out how to gather the tools musing
MacPorts.
I would suggest you go through the list of homebrew recipes in the
instructions. See which tools each of those recipes installs. Find out
which port in MacPorts installs the same tool. Install that port from
MacPorts.
When you have installed all the tools, try to do the build. If it works,
great. If it doesn't work, then you have a puzzle to solve.
Does that help?
Best regards,
--Jim DeLaHunt
