In article
<31014624.702.1327454899075.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbuf18>,
Daryle Walker <dary
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a August-2002 eMac, a PowerPC G4 system running on Tiger (10.4). I've
> installed GCC 4.6 on it from MacPorts. I'm able to compile a "Hello World"
> program from a single file. However, I just tried making a multi-part
> program and it failed. The catch is that I didn't let GCC-4.6 do the
> linking; I'm using Boost and its custom Jam, and its steps show that it's
> choking on "/usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: --start-group" while building the
> final product. (Each source file compiles to an object file just fine.) I
> guess it's using the built-in linker that Apple supplies, so a Darwin-style
> linker can't process non-Darwin object files. Is there some sort of
> compatible linker I can download (from MacPorts)? Or somehow set GCC-4.6 to
> do all the linking?
install apple's xcode, which you can download from apple's developer
site (free to sign up). it will install everything you need (and quite
a bit more).
be sure to get the version that works with tiger, as the current one
will not.
