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<jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote in message
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> Now that Metrowerks has discontinued their x86 cross-compiler, I am
> left with wondering if there is another Mac-hosted x86 cross-compiler?
> (I know that gcc is available on x86, but it is not Mac-hosted.)  I am
> also guessing that Symbian (the new owners of the Metrowerks x86 tools)
> has no interest in continuing to sell the Mac-hosted version of these
> tools.  (Makes you wonder why Metrowerks couldn't have made the
> agreement to continue to sell Mac versions.)
>
> In particular, I have written a number of small utilities that I have
> cross-compiled for both Mac and Windows, but I prefer to do my
> development on the Mac side, saving the Windows side for debugging.
> Most start off as command-line utilities, often ending up as
> DLL's/Shared Libraries with a RealBasic GUI on top of it.  CodeWarrior
> 9.4 was perfect for just that, but that solution no longer exists, so I
> am looking for the best approximation to that.
>

gcc can be used as a cross compiler. I've never actually tried to make one,
but build instructions are provided (as well as warnings that it's tricky.)
I once looked into this as a possibility for XCode; the big problem I see is
debugging.

I haven't tried doing any x86 w/ 9.5 & Tiger yet. If that works, I'm okay
for another year or two anyway. If not, I'd still rather dedicate an old
machine to Panther & CW9.4 than use anything else I know of (particularly
including Visual Studio on PC.)