[PATCH 0/1] MR4966: winebuild: On macOS, search for tools un-prefixed as a last resort.

[Brendan Shanks (＠bshanks)]

When cross-compiling on macOS, like building on ARM64 to target x86_64 [1], `make install` would fail with `winebuild: cannot find the 'ar' tool`. `winebuild` was looking for `x86_64-apple-darwin-ar`, but macOS does not install prefixed tools. As a last step before failing in `find_tool()`, search for the un-prefixed tool name.

[1]: with a `configure` invocation like: `../configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64 --host=x86_64-apple-darwin CC="clang -arch x86_64"`

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/4966

[PATCH 1/1] winebuild: On macOS, search for tools un-prefixed as a last resort.

[Brendan Shanks]

From: Brendan Shanks <bshanks(a)codeweavers.com>

---
 tools/winebuild/utils.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/winebuild/utils.c b/tools/winebuild/utils.c
index 9f51a60c01f..dec11d5ce2c 100644
--- a/tools/winebuild/utils.c
+++ b/tools/winebuild/utils.c
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ struct strarray find_tool( const char *name, const char * const *names )
     struct strarray ret = empty_strarray;
     const char *file;
     const char *alt_names[2];
+    const char * const *orig_names;
 
     if (!names)
     {
@@ -236,6 +237,7 @@ struct strarray find_tool( const char *name, const char * const *names )
         alt_names[1] = NULL;
         names = alt_names;
     }
+    orig_names = names;
 
     while (*names)
     {
@@ -253,6 +255,20 @@ struct strarray find_tool( const char *name, const char * const *names )
             file = find_clang_tool( clang, strmake( "llvm-%s", name ));
         }
     }
+
+    /* macOS does not prefix tools like ar and ranlib, search for
+     * them un-prefixed before failing.
+     */
+    if (!file && target.platform == PLATFORM_APPLE)
+    {
+        names = orig_names;
+        while (*names)
+        {
+            if ((file = find_binary( NULL, *names ))) break;
+            names++;
+        }
+    }
+
     if (!file) fatal_error( "cannot find the '%s' tool\n", name );
 
     strarray_add( &ret, file );
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GitLab

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/4966

[Jacek Caban (＠jacek)]

Maybe we should just always pass `--cc-cmd` to winebuild. This would allow `find_clang_tool` to work. We could also, as a last resort, search for `clang` and use that for `find_clang_tool` instead of limiting that code path to explicitly passed compiler.

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/4966#note_59511