#29172: remove dependency on Xcode -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: joshmoz@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 1.9.2 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Comment(by tobias.netzel@…): Replying to [ticket:29172 joshmoz@…]:
I realize this would be a pretty significant change but I'd like for MacPorts to not depend on Xcode. Xcode now costs money, which means that MacPorts depends on non-free (as in beer) software. As far as I know there is no convenient and free developer toolchain on Mac OS X any more. The MacPorts project is probably in the best position of any project to provide that. Did you ever realize there is Gentoo Prefix?[[BR]] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml [[BR]] I didn't know of it's existence until a fews days ago but they seem to provide exactly what you're looking for. It needs Xcode only for bootstrapping. After that everything gets compiled by it's own toolchain.[[BR]] Although I didn't test it they seem to provide clang 2.9 as well as llvm- gcc-4.2 ready to be built and used on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
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