On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 11:46:44AM +0100, Bertrand Marquis wrote: > Xen does not provide a Darwin build configuration useable on Mac OS. > It is possible to build Xen Hypervisor (tools are not supported) with a > toolchain able to produce ELF binaries (GCC or others). > > Add config/Darwin.mk to include StdGNU.mk and force > XEN_COMPILE_ARCH=unknown, ensuring Darwin builds always follow > the cross-compile path so compiling on Mac OS is always handled as a > cross compilation case. > > Only compiling the hypervisor has been tested ! > > An example of how to build the hypervisor for arm64 on Mac OS > (tools cannot be build for now) using a compiler from brew: > - brew install aarch64-elf-gcc aarch64-elf-binutils > - make XEN_TARGET_ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-elf- HOSTCC=clang
This needs 'xen' target passed. > > Signed-off-by: Bertrand Marquis <[email protected]> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]> Thanks, Roger.
