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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by arjan_sch on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:50PM (#23824880)
True. IIRC Erlang only supports GCC as the build system. I helped fixing a race in the BEAM a while back that only occurred on the latest GCC.
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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by KenoFischer on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:59PM (#23824946)
> IIRC Erlang only supports GCC as the build system.

Since gcc doesn't work on Apple Silicon, I assumed the OP must be using clang :).

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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by asveikau on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:06PM (#23825569)
gcc certainly compiles for ARM and understands Darwin/mach-o. It can probably target iOS. What would the major barrier be for gcc to work?
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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by manquer on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:30PM (#23825794)
Given that Apple silicon is pretty new my guess it porting and testing , I would also add not all ARM chips are exactly the same , there will be some minor nuances for sure .

Perhaps it is also some funding and access to the kits and dev time , updating gcc is not a full time job for most of the contributors after all.

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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by KenoFischer on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:39PM (#23825864)
See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96168.
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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by asveikau on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:38PM (#23826915)
This is a great thread, thanks! (And I see that your name is in the thread.)

I gather from there that previous efforts to target iOS are outdated, there is substantial work to handle the Apple ABI, and that it's not been seriously looked at yet.

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Re:Building Elixir from source segfaults on macOS on Apple S... by filmor on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:23AM (#23829112)
That's not true. GCC, Clang and MSVC are supported.

http://erlang.org/doc/installation_guide/INSTALL.html

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