qmake on OS X: disable x86/i386 arch (build only x86_64) - macos

I'm trying to get qmake to produce a makefile which does not include -arch i386 in CFLAGS/LFLAGS and so far I'm not succeeding. I tried the following:
CONFIG-=x86
QMAKE_CFLAGS-="-arch i386"
and a couple of other variations. The only one that does work is removing x86.prf from mkspecs/features/mac but I don't think it's a proper solution.
The current commandline looks approximately like this:
qmake -makefile -nocache CONFIG-=release CONFIG+=Debug CONFIG+=mac
CONFIG+=CMDMAKE CONFIG-=x86 CONFIG+=x64
QMAKE_MAKEFILE=makefile_mac_Debugx64 QMAKE_LFLAGS="<...>"
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS="<..>" QMAKE_CFLAGS="<...>" QTVER=4.8.4 project.pro

I believe that qmake uses the compiler available in the PATH. If you want to use x86_64 compiler, alter PATH (and possibly INCLUDE, LIB and LIBPATH) environment variables for x86_64 compiler to be available, and then run qmake.

Tentative solution (need to verify a few things to confirm it, but seems to work):
1) make a separate build of Qt for x64 only, i.e.:
./configure -platform macx-g++42 -arch x64 -debug-and-release <...>
2) use qmake from that build to generate x64 makefiles.
It apparently still needs CONFIG-=x86 but that looks to be enough to prevent stray -arch i386 in the generated makefiles.

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ffmpeg refuses to compile for x86_64 arch on M1 mac

I'm trying to build a universal binary of ffmpeg on MacOS, by compiling it twice (for arm64 and x86_64) and then using the lipo tool to combine the resulting binaries. I'm on an M1 Mac, so uname -m returns arm64 on my machine.
When running the configure script like so:
./configure --arch=x86_64
It outputs:
install prefix /usr/local
source path .
C compiler gcc
C library
ARCH c (generic)
...
And after running make, inspecting the built binaries with lipo -archs reveals that it's building them for arm64.
The result is the same if I add --enable-crosscompile to the configure call.
Based on this post, I also tried --arch=x86, but that had the exact same result, configure script displayed arch as c (generic) and inspecting artefacts with lipo shows they are built for arm64 architecture.
Does anyone have any ideas? Why is the configure script just refusing to build for x86_64?
You can speify -cc to make clang compile x86_64 binary.
Try:
./configure --enable-cross-compile --prefix=./install_x86_64 --arch=x86_64 --cc='clang -arch x86_64'
Note: don't forget to clear the outdated files by
make distclean
By the way, I have successfully built universal binrary of FFmpeg, you can refer to my build scripts. make_compile.py compile both x86_64 and arm64 binraries, and make_universal.py use lipo to generate universal binrary.
Reference
https://ffmpeg.org/platform.html
https://github.com/FFmpeg/gas-preprocessor

How to cross compile solaris 32-bit

We are currently building our Go executables for several platforms including Solaris 64-bit. We have requests for a 32-bit Solaris executable version as well and I am unable to get this to work (the person who setup the Solaris 64-bit cross compiler is gone and unreachable).
I tried just setting -m32 flag on go build using our existing solaris cross compilation, but that didn't work, so I am attempting to build a Solaris 32-bit specific cross compiler.
I googled and found some vague examples, so I am following this process:
Copy headers and libraries from a 32-bit Solaris machine to my Linux build machine.
D/L and build binutils and gcc pointing SYSROOT to the downloaded 32-bit Solaris headers and libraries where:
$TARGET=sparc-sun-solaris2.10
$SYSROOT=/path/to/solaris32/includes
$PREFIX=/path/to/gcc-output
binutils-2.31/configure -target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX -with-sysroot=$SYSROOT -v
gcc-8.2.0/configure --target=$TARGET --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --prefix=$PREFIX -with-sysroot=$SYSROOT --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,go -v
Create a symlink to gogcc and put GCC on the path
Compile a trivial test go program like this:
go build --compiler gccgo --gccgoflags "-m32 -O3 -static-libgo -Wl,-dy -lnsl -lsocket -lrt -lsendfile" -o ${GOTOOLS}/${BINARIES}/${PROJECT_NAME}/test/solaris_sparc32 test/main.go
This fails as follows:
go build: when using gccgo toolchain, please pass compiler flags using -gccgoflags, not -gcflags
command-line-arguments
gccgo: error: may not use both -m32 and -m64
Clearly I don't know what I'm doing. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Solaris 32-bit does not appear to be supported, according to the list of supported OS/arch targets:
The valid combinations of $GOOS and $GOARCH are:
$GOOS $GOARCH
...
solaris amd64
...
That is, Solaris 64-bit is explicitly listed as a supported platform but Solaris 32-bit is not listed.
As such, there is good reason to believe that go programs will not run reliably on Solaris 32-bit systems and you probably should not agree to support that platform (if you do happen to get that cross compilation working) mainly because the go team itself does not support it!

CMake generates "-L/usr/local/lib" on Mac OSX

I have a CMake C++ dylib project that builds correctly in one MacOS X environment but fails in another. Environments are on the same machine, but under different users. I'm seeking help how to do I troubleshoot where the failure in the second one comes from.
What I managed to figure out is that in failing configuration CMake adds the following flags in link.txt (the commands used to link the executable)
-arch x86_64
-isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk
-mmacosx-version-min=10.6
-L/usr/local/lib
The last one causes havoc as it makes ld pick up dependencies from /usr/local/lib instead of link directories I configured in CMake.
I would appreciate any insight what triggers generating the flags above and what is the best way to squelch them, especially -L/usr/local/lib?

How to compile universal libraries on Mac OS X?

This may be a very silly question, but I'm new to developing on Macs and am having a hard time with the universal binaries.
I've got an application that I'm compiling in QT Creator, which according to lipo is producing i386 architecture outputs. As I understand it, that means it is producing Mac OS X 32 bit outputs.
The application depends on two external libraries. One of these libraries I'm compiling by calling ./config first, and then make. ./config states that it is "Configured for darwin-i386-cc". However, after running make, and calling lipo on the result, the architecture is reported as x86_64.
Similarly, I have another external library. That one has no configure script, and I compile it simply by calling make. The output from this one too is x86_64.
How can I compile these two external libraries so that they produce something compatible with my application's i386 output? Better yet, how can I compile these two external libraries to produce universal libraries so I can produce a universal binary from my application that works on both 32 and 64 bit?
Also, based on the current state of the Mac world, are there any other platforms that I should be expected to target to create a proper, user-friendly Mac OS X universal binary?
Finally got it working.
In order to control the architecture of the target, I manually went in and edited the Makefiles.
For one of them, I added to the end of the line that starts with CFLAGS: -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc
This produced a universal binary.
For the other, when I did the same thing, the compile would error out. I had to cycle through and only put one arch at a time, and then after I produced all three, I called lipo on them with the -create flag to create a universal binary.
for ./configure, you can use this:
./configure CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" --disable-dependency-tracking
--disable-dependency-tracking is important or gcc/g++ will refuse to compile code.
I can't answer the main part of your question, because I always use Xcode rather than make. But as for that last part, if you support OS versions earlier than 10.6, you may need to compile for PowerPC (arch. code "ppc") as well.

Building crti.o for i386

I am trying to build a cross-compiler with x86_64 being the host and i386 being the target. I'm getting the (all to common) crti.o: No such file error. Instead of grabbing an already built crti.o and crtn.o from a distro... how might I go about building these files explicitly from glibc (or possibly gcc) sources?
FYI, I am well aware of the -m32 option for x86_64 compilers. I'd prefer to just have a 32bit-only compiler environment. Also, the reason I don't want to use any of the gazillion already build i386 compilers is because I plan on mixing and matching glibc/binutils/gcc versions depending on my testing needs.
Thanks,
Chenz
Here's one possibility (from here)
You need to install your distro's 32
bit libc-dev package, or you need to
--disable-multilib which will result in a compiler that doesn't support 32
bit mode.
Are you sure you're using configuring the cross-compile correctly? It should be
CBUILD = CHOST = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CTARGET = i386-pc-linux-gnu
as you're running a build on an x86_64, for a compiler to run on an x86_64, which generates code for an i386.
If you used CHOST = i386-pc-linux-gnu, you'll be trying to generate 32-bit binaries, which will need to link with a 32-bit libc. Which is fine, if you already have a 32-bit libc, but it sounds like you don't.
i.e.
$ tar xvjf gcc-*.tar.bz2
$ cd gcc-*/
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-pc-linux-gnu

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