[Vm-dev] Some changes required to build the VM on OSX Lion

[Camillo Bruni]

Thanks for reporting,

the current situation is far from satisfying. We're still struggling to get the
build automated here. With the CI infrastructure being down for more than 2 months
a lot of variables have changed.

I updated the build description a bit to include homebrew installation instructions
for the missing OSX binaries.

On 2013-02-15, at 12:57, "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at highoctane.be> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> From what is on: git://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed.git
> 
> I had to do the following changes to the procedure:
> 
> Had to change the 10.6 into 10.7 into the generated image (a search on
> source code was doing the trick)
> Cmake from macports gave me some trouble. This was updated yesterday,
> so, maybe linked to that.
> Had to run it as root with a sudo (yikes!)
> Had the to chown all files back to me.
> Then make worked.
> But then crashed.
> Turned out that the generated vmVersionInfo.h contained extra chars at
> the beginning "-n" and missed a terminating " (in fact, there was a
> newline ruining the day.)
> 
> After that, results contained the Mac OSX VM and it ran on my box. (OSX Lion)
> 
> All of the HOWTOBUILD with
> 
> 
> # as of 10.7 llvm is the default but incompatible compiler
>            export CC='/usr/bin/gcc-4.2'
>            export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
>            sh ../codegen-scripts/extract-commit-info.sh
>            cd build
>            cmake .
>            make
> 
> doesn't work. There is no /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 and llvm works. The 10.5
> also gives issues.
> 
> Then I got the VM in results/ and it was able to open my images.
> 
> Phil