I've tried to build racket on two different powerpc macs and so far have not been successful. Is there a minimum macos or xcode version that I need? Should I build BC or CS variants? I'm building from the official racket-8.13-minimal-src.tgz distribution. First machine: Powerbook G4 running 10.3.…

I forgot about that problem. My solution here has been to set the PLT_PKG_SSL_NO_VERIFY and GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY environment variables.

Although I've built on a PowerPC Mac relatively recently, it was with Mac OS 10.5. I vaguely recall that I had to upgrade to 10.5 years ago because 10.4 was too old to be practical, but I'm not sure I remember correctly.

I can probably install 10.5 on one of my machines. It is good to have confirmation that it should work. I'll update this thread when I get a chance to try it.

I'm almost there. Racket-minimal builds on Mac OS 10.5. I also have the replacement openssl libs from libs/racket-ppc-macosx-3/racket at master · racket/libs · GitHub . My issue now(I think) is that the I don't have valid CA certificates for openssl. I tried copying certs from a linux box and puttin…

Build errors on powerpc macos

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jjsimpso July 10, 2024, 2:01pm 6

Those environment variables did the trick. I now have racket built and running on a Mac Mini G4! Thanks for all the help.

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Build errors on powerpc macos

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