Asterius.Boot L145
adds an @ that makes ar fail.

Thanks for reporting. I have a WIP branch for fixing & testing darwin support here; after fixing the @ issue of booting, it now fails with the following error message when running configure of an autoconf package:

Configuring ghc-prim-0.5.3...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/distiller/project/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx-custom-asterius/1d778aa5cc4903dd0f7b6344c055c493b33c2d1b0672db9d92e829c6c4299605/8.6.5/share/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.6.5/asterius-0.0.1/.boot/dist/dist/ghc-prim/build':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
ahc-boot: user error (boot failure)

I'm not a darwin toolchain expert, so I'm stuck on this step. Would be great if you or someone else provide a bit of guidance here.

@TerrorJack I am getting the same C compiler error. I'll try to resolve that

For the checking whether the C compiler works... no error.

In ghc-toolkit/ghc-libdir/settings the ("C compiler link flags", " -fuse-ld=gold"), is an unsupported compiler flag. This line needs to be changed to ("C compiler link flags", " "),.

I'm not sure how that will affect compatibility for the other systems

Thank you. I pushed the suggested fix; fingers crossed for the result in https://circleci.com/gh/tweag/asterius/7669

Got another file path error

ar: @/Users/williamrusnack/Documents/asterius/.stack-work/install/x86_64-osx-custom-asterius/5712d8350648752475833347e3e5d3b317375b52376aecf5a470fc0d935bd03d/8.6.5/share/x86_64-osx-ghc-8.6.5/asterius-0.0.1/.boot/dist/dist/ghc-prim/build/objs-38207/ar38207-2.rsp: No such file or directory
ahc-boot: user error (boot failure)

Confirmed the same error on CI. Maybe the easiest fix is to install gnu binutils via brew, and set up symlink only for ar. I'll see if a better fix without hacking the xcode toolchain is possible tomorrow.

Yeah, I couldn't solve this last one. Ok, I'll look into the modified ar

+1 on this when building asterius on MacOS

brew install binutils with a symlink for ar worked. Are there long term consequences of leaving this symlink in place?