Building Google Breakpad on Mac OS X

Question

I am attempting to build Google Breakpad for Mac OS X as a part of porting an application, based on the trunk revision 782.

The Breakpad wiki specifies that one should b

Answer 1

This might not be helpful in your case, but I've found this to work for a project I'm working on that needs to work on both Linux and OSX. On Linux we use the "normal" autotools way of doing things; on OSX we invoke xcodebuild to create Breakpad.framework and then link against that.

Here's the relevant portion of the CMakeLists.txt file (for CMake see here):

IF(LINUX)
  add_custom_target(
    GOOGLE_BREAKPAD_MAKEFILE
    COMMAND cd ../google-breakpad/ && ([ -e Makefile ] || (autoreconf && bash configure))
  )
  add_custom_target(
    GOOGLE_BREAKPAD
    COMMAND cd ../google-breakpad/ && $(MAKE)
  )
  add_dependencies(GOOGLE_BREAKPAD GOOGLE_BREAKPAD_MAKEFILE)
ENDIF()

IF(APPLE)
  add_custom_target(
    GOOGLE_BREAKPAD
    COMMAND cd ../google-breakpad/src/client/mac/ && xcodebuild -sdk macosx
  )
ENDIF()

If your application is built with clang -stdlib=libc++ (which is pretty normal if you make heavy use of C++11), you should append the phrase GCC_VERSION=com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0 OTHER_CFLAGS=-stdlib=libc++ OTHER_LDFLAGS=-stdlib=libc++ to the end of the xcodebuild line. This will force xcodebuild to do the right thing.

If your application is built with GCC and GNU libstdc++, you don't need to add anything to the xcodebuild line.