Erlang on Mac OS X Panther

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

klacke@REDACTED writes:

> I've bough meself a mac :-)

Excellent! :)

> 
> Anyway, I found the following two problems compiling erlang
> on Panther OS X 10.3
> 
> - Erlang utilize internal zlib functions. In particular z_errstr()
>   The zlib on OS X doesn't have the dunction.
> 
> # nm /usr/lib/libz.dylib | grep errstr
> 
>  Returns nothing. I solved it by 
>    - installing zlib from source in /usr/local
>    - and hacking the generated Makefile 
>      to link with /usr/libz.a instead of just -lz
> 

Erlang comes with its own zlib. In the R9C-2 release, we have changed
so that "our" zlib is always linked in.

> 
> 
> SSL application doesn't build correctly either:
> 
>   The link flags contained a -R which gcc doesn't inderstand
>   I just removed the -R. Don't even know what it's supposed to do.
> 

It is probably needed by some obscure platform. We'll see what we
can do about it in future releases.

/Bjorn
-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB