Re: [Qemu-devel] Now for the complicated part of the OS X port...

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>]

qemu@raylucke.com wrote:
> I am able to get every file, including vm86.o,  op-i386.o, helper-i386.o,
> etc. to compile (after quite a few code mods that disable certain
> functionality) except the syscall.c file, but that's because it is made
> specifically for Linux, and Darwin will need it's own, which is a job in
> itself. The other files that don't compile are those that include the
> dyngen-generated includes.
> 
> I am wondering if anyone on this list knows much about the Mach-O file
> format, and would possibly consider writing a dyngen program that will
> generate the appropriate headers so this thing will compile the rest the
> way.
> 
> If not, Fabrice, do you have any pointers of where I can get a crash
> course on writing a dyngen program for Mach-O files so I can let it
> process Darwin's applicable files?

The best source of information seems to be the binutils source code (in 
particular the BFD library patched by Apple). Then it is possible to 
patch dyngen to support the Mach-O format or to write a Mach-O to ELF 
object file converter.

Fabrice.