Compile FreeBSD on linux/MacOS

[Alexander Richardson]

Hi Alex,

If you would like to make some changes you could open an issue/create a
pull request on my GitHub repo. However, I'll be traveling for the next two
weeks so it might take a while until I respond. Once I get back I will
start working on this again and hopefully get most of the patches submitted
soon.

Regards,
Alex


On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 13:47 Alexandru Elisei, <alexandru.elisei at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Alex,
>
> If someone wants to create an issue or contribute to your patch, how can
> that be done?
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 4:31 PM Alexander Richardson <
> arichardson at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Once Fri, 31 Aug 2018, 14:11 Alexandru Elisei, <
>> alexandru.elisei at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I know there is a project about compiling FreeBSD on linux or MacOS.
>>>
>>> Where can I find more information about the project? Has it been
>>> submitted
>>> for review?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Alexandru,
>>
>>
>> I have been working on this for the past few months. I have a
>> work-in-progress branch on GitHub <
>> https://github.com/arichardson/freebsd/tree/crossbuild-aug2018>
>> (warning: I rebase this branch whenever I commit one of my changes) but I
>> haven't written up anything about the current state.
>> I have a few pending patches on phabricator and some committed changes
>> but the rest of the changes still needs some clean-up before it can be
>> submitted. Most of the changes are just allowing to build one of the
>> bootstrap tools on non-FreeBSD but there are also two bigger changes
>> (D16815 and D14316) to provide the basic cross-OS building infrastructure.
>>
>> It currently works fine for me on MacOS and Linux when compiling with the
>> CHERI fork of llvm/clang/lld (<https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/clang>)
>> but in order to compile with upstream clang you will have to delete the
>> builtin std* headers from the clang install since they are incompatible
>> with the FreeBSD stddef.h/stdio.h/etc. headers.
>>
>> If you want to try it out you should to use the script
>> tools/build/make.py instead of make and if you're lucky `make.py
>> buildworld` might succeed. I've tested building for mips64 and amd64 but
>> other architectures might also be fine.
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Best regards,
>>> Alexandru Elisei
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