OSX pecularities

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Zbigniew Diaczyszyn edited this page Apr 2, 2014 · 5 revisions

1. Compiling a C extension for OSX

Testing environment:

OSX Tcl version 8.5.7
gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)
PWGorilla 8.5.7

How to create the stretchkey extension:

gcc -dynamiclib -fno-common -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DUSE_TCL_STUBS -fPIC -DRUNTIME_ENDIAN -Wall \
-I /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers/ \
-I /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/PrivateHeaders/ \
stretch.c sha256.c \
-L/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/ -ltclstub8.5  \
-o stretchkey.dylib

How to create the twofish extension:

gcc -dynamiclib -fno-common -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DUSE_TCL_STUBS -fPIC -Wall \
-I /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers/ \
-I /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/PrivateHeaders/ \
twofish2tcl.c \
-L/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/ -ltclstub8.5  \
-o twofish.dylib

To control the 32/64bit versions add the option -m32 or -m64