Re: GCC on MacPorts

Iain Sandoe <[email protected]> Mon, 25 May 2026 10:56:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Hans,

We (GCC developers) have no visibility of the internal workings of =
macports - you would need to take up the maintenance of that port with =
the organisers there.

What I do is to publish =E2=80=9Cgeneric=E2=80=9D darwin/macOS branches =
(usually with some additions) - which have then been taken by macports =
and homebrew and adjusted for their respective packaging environments.

> GCC on MacPorts seems to not be maintained anymore; I reported there =
that GCC 16 has been released (link below), and there were no takers. So =
I post here in case someone knows how to move further.

As macOS is supported on a voluntary basis, it takes me a little time =
usually from the initial release until the Darwin/macOS one is ready.  =
Currently I am releasing macOS from a development branch - which =
includes support for Arm64 (aarch64) which is not yet upstreamed.

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I will shortly be publishing GCC-16.1-darwin (with experimental support =
for Arm64 /aarch64) .. and will add your email to the list of folks to =
be notified.

thanks for your interest - but you need to direct the offer to the =
macports folks.

Iain