Compiling Bochs on Mac os x Snow Leopard

Question

Was someone able to compile the Bochs simulator under Snow Leopard. Leopard worked fine for me but under Snow Leopard I get alot of problems related to the Carbon library...

Answer 1

First, you'll have to run "make dist-clean" to get rid of some of the library code which will have compiled successfully in 64-bit mode - this isn't deleted by a regular "make clean", only the more radical dist-clean. Otherwise, your build will try to mix 32 and 64 bit code, which doesn't work.

Now set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to contain the -m32 switch to force 32 bit mode. Re-run ./configure, then make, and you should get a working 'bochs' binary.

Having got past the build problems, though, you'll probably find the Carbon version no longer runs; the X11 version seems to be a better bet. (At least, on my Snow Leopard system, the Carbon build fails early with an assertion failure; X11 works as expected.) You may be able to get a 64 bit X11 build running, without the Carbon dependency, but I haven't tried this yet, only 32 bit.