[THRIFT-1476] Build universal library binaries on Mac OSX

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7, 0.8, 0.9
• Component/s: C++ - Library
• Labels: build mac osx thrift universal universal_binary

Environment

Mac OS X

• Assignee: Jake Farrell
• Reporter: Peace C
• Created: 30/Dec/11 18:38
• Updated: 04/Jan/19 03:09
• Resolved: 06/Sep/17 03:27

Description

I would like to request a build option to create universal binaries on Mac OSX. The resulting library would support i386, x86_64 and ppc platforms.

For reference, Jake F. posted a work-around to target different platforms -

> The thrift build is not setup to create a universal binary currently. if
> you would like to create a ticket for this we can take a look at making
> this a global configure option. To set the arch you can pass
> CPPFLAGS='-arch i386' to configure.
[edit: additionally pass LDFLAGS and CXXFLAGS with the same architecture]
> You should be able to use this for each arch you want to create and then
> use lipo to combine them into a universal binary.
>
> -Jake