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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ At Ericsson we have a "Daily Build and Test" that runs on:
* x86
* OpenBSD 5.0
* x86\_64
-* Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), 10.6.0 (Snow Leopard), 10.7.3 (Lion)
+* Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), 10.7.3 (Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks)
* x86
* Windows XP SP3, 2003, Vista, 7
* x86
@@ -297,6 +297,18 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are:
you can build using a fallback implementation based on mutexes or spinlocks.
Performance of the SMP runtime system will however suffer immensely without
an implementation for native atomic memory accesses.
+* `--enable-static-{nifs,drivers}` - To allow usage of nifs and drivers on OSs
+ that do not support dynamic linking of libraries it is possible to statically
+ link nifs and drivers with the main Erlang VM binary. This is done by passing
+ a comma seperated list to the archives that you want to statically link. e.g.
+ `--enable-static-nifs=/home/$USER/my_nif.a`. The path has to be absolute and the
+ name of the archive has to be the same as the module, i.e. `my_nif` in the
+ example above. This is also true for drivers, but then it is the driver name
+ that has to be the same as the filename. You also have to define
+ `STATIC_ERLANG_{NIF,DRIVER}` when compiling the .o files for the nif/driver.
+ If your nif/driver depends on some other dynamic library, you now have to link
+ that to the Erlang VM binary. This is easily achived by passing `LIBS=-llibname`
+ to configure.
* `--without-$app` - By default all applications in Erlang/OTP will be included
in a release. If this is not wanted it is possible to specify that Erlang/OTP
should be compiled without that applications, i.e. `--without-wx`. There is
@@ -703,17 +715,18 @@ Install MacPorts (<http://www.macports.org/>). Then:
### Building with wxErlang ###
-If you want to build the `wx` application, you will need to get wxWidgets-2.9.4 (or later)
-(`wxWidgets-2.9.4.tar.bz2` from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/>)
+If you want to build the `wx` application, you will need to get wxWidgets-3.0 (or later)
+(`wxWidgets-3.0.0.tar.bz2` from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0/>)
or get it from github:
$ git clone [email protected]:wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git
-Be aware that the wxWidgets-2.9 branch is a development branch of wxWidgets and the MacOsX
-port still lags behind the other ports.
+Be aware that the wxWidgets-3.0 is a new release of wxWidgets, it is not as matured
+as the old releases and the MacOsX port still lags behind the other ports.
-Configure and build wxMac:
+Configure and build wxWidgets:
- $ ./configure --with-cocoa --prefix=/usr/local
+ $ ./configure --with-cocoa --prefix=/usr/local
+ % Optional version and static libs: --with-macosx-version-min=10.9 --disable-shared
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
@@ -724,12 +737,11 @@ Check that you got the correct wx-config
### Finish up ###
-Build Erlang with the MacPorts GCC as the main compiler (using `clang`
-for the Objective-C Cocoa code in the `wx` application):
+Build Erlang
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
$ cd $ERL_TOP
- $ CC=/opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.5 CXX=/opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.5 ./configure --enable-darwin-64bit
+ $ ./configure --enable-shared-zlib
$ make
$ sudo make install