valgrind-macos VS osxcross

> There's a nice synergy between using Mac and Linux - many of the same scripts, commands, and concepts work identically.

I switched to a Mac a few months ago from Windows and I kinda hate the small differences with Linux, I like WSL much better. On top of my head,

- No systemd

- No native docker

- No valgrind (there is https://github.com/LouisBrunner/valgrind-macos though)

I basically have to install a Linux VM on Mac just for this, at which point WSL on Windows is a much better tradeoff IMO.

As far as I know there are only two of us contributing to it - Louis Brunner and myself, both very much part time volunteers.

There is ongoing work here https://github.com/LouisBrunner/valgrind-macos (and I have a repo that is based on the same changes, and a bit more up do date upstream here https://github.com/paulfloyd/macos_valgrind). Anyone that can help with this is most welcome!

BTW, it seems like there is some work ongoing for working Valgrind in later macOS versions: https://github.com/LouisBrunner/valgrind-macos/issues/19

If you actually have MacOS device and can install Xcode and so on then you can proceed here and read the instructions.

Have you considered using a dockerized osxcross cross compiler toolchain in your CI? Granted it is a bit clunky to setup...

Technically it's possible, but possibly not legal:

https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross

> Please ensure you have read and understood the Xcode license terms before continuing.

According to the EULA you may only use the SDK on Apple-branded computers. But you can use Linux to cross compile to Apple.

is there a way to cross compile without vms? something similar to https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross?

If you figure out how to get SDL working, one possibility is to develop on Linux, then use mingw-w64 to cross compile from Linux to windows, then use osxcross to cross-compile from Windows to OSX.

Thank you osxcross for creating the path forward

This is actually a solved problem, using osxcross[0]. The experience is honestly very smooth, and we don't require any apple proprietary binaries. The only thing apple-proprietary is their SDK (containing the header files for compiling, and tbd files for linking), which can be downloaded from apple's website (at least if you have a developer account), or from various GitHub projects archiving them.

[0]: https://github.com/tpoechtrager/osxcross