Re: [Mac-on-linux-devel] Build system help

[Joseph J. <jo...@ge...>]

>>> Ist MOL's BootX related to Mac OS X's / Darwin's BootX? Darwin's
>>> BootX builds just fine ...
>>
>> Yes and no, it's certainly based on OSX's and Darwin's BootX, but
>> it's modified a bit.  The issue with MOL's version of BootX is that
>> it needs to build a static ELF version.
> 
> A Mac's firmware can't load mach-o either. Darwin's BootX features an
> mach-o to XCOFF converter. Would this be helpful?

Of course, but we're not using the firmware to load Mach-O, we're
using MOL's ELF loader.  We either have to find a way to build ELF
of OSX, add another loader to MOL, or simply just not build BootX on
OSX and bundle a precompiled copy for OSX users.

-Joe