Re: [Sbcl-help] Need help installing SBCL on OSX10.16

[Chris H. <cmh...@es...>]

I don’t see why Apple platforms would be different than any other platforms from that perspective; in fact, our effort to manage API evolution in an ABI-compatible way may make things substantially more likely to work out of the box than with certain other platforms.

You produce a “Linux” binary, how sure are you that it works equally well on Ubuntu 12.04 and 17.10 and Fedora 22 and 26 and all the user-compiled variants of Arch too?

  -- Chris

> On Nov 26, 2017, at 2:50 AM, Stas Boukarev <sta...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> I don't trust Apple without testing.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 1:35 PM Chris Hanson <cmh...@es... <mailto:cmh...@es...>> wrote:
> An SBCL built on macOS 10.13 should work fine on Mac OS X 10.6.8 as long as the platform C compiler and linker are passed -mmacosx-version-min=10.6, and neither C code nor Lisp code uses newer-than-10.6 APIs via dlsym() or something without first checking the OS version they’re running on.
> 
> The -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 mechanism is how code for the Darwin-based platforms can build against their latest SDKs and still run on earlier releases of the operating systems; we put availability __attribute__ markers on all APIs so anything newer than the passed -m___-version-min is weak-linked and NULL at runtime, which the code can then guard against. It’s used by pretty much every application in existence for the Darwin-based platforms.
> 
>   -- Chris
> 
> 
>> On Nov 26, 2017, at 2:25 AM, Stas Boukarev <sta...@gm... <mailto:sta...@gm...>> wrote:
>> 
>> If I make a build on 10.13 it may not work on 10.6. Just use homebrew. 
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017, 08:37 Chris Hanson <cmh...@es... <mailto:cmh...@es...>> wrote:
>> I’ve been wondering, why aren’t there any newer builds for macOS? Is it just a matter of having access to a system to run the builds & tests?
>> 
>> Is everyone using SBCL on a Mac just building it from source? (I am, but for reasons I can’t go into, I can’t share my builds.)
>> 
>>   -- Chris
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 9:02 AM, Stas Boukarev <sta...@gm... <mailto:sta...@gm...>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> sbcl-1.2.11-x86-64-darwin-binary.tar.bz2 has src/runtime/sbcl. Did you download the right thing?
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 5:32 PM Daniel James Ross <mr....@gm... <mailto:mr....@gm...>> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I just got a new laptop and am having trouble installing the latest SBCL.
>>> 
>>> I downloaded the latest version and get the following error when I run the command "sh install.sh":
>>> 
>>> src/runtime/sbcl not found, aborting installation.
>>> 
>>> Have been installing and running SBCL on various machines for years and have never come across this problem before. Any help greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Dan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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