Thanks for the insight Jonathan. I saw some references eluding to this but wasn't sure if it was correct. I'll poke around the Xcode command line tools more. Nick On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6 January 2017 at 15:31, Nick Leli <nicholasleli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> I was suspecting the missing assembler too as I did not see the *-as file in >> the $PREFIX/bin directory. To add more color to this, I have: >> >> 1. Run the contrib/download_prerequisites script >> 2. Configured binutils with ../binutils-2.27/configure --target=$TARGET >> --prefix="$PREFIX" --with-sysroot --disable-nls --disable-werror >> 3. Run `make` and `make install` in the new `build-binutils` directory >> >> Is there a specific flag to create the assembler in the binutils config? >> >> These are the files found in my new $PREFIX/bin directory: >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-addr2line >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-readelf >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-ar >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-size >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-c++filt >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-strings >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-elfedit >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-strip >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-nm >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-objcopy >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-objdump >> x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0-ranlib > > Ah, I've just remembered that binutils doesn't support Mac OS X, so > the assembler and linker are not built. You need to use the Apple > assembler and linker from t he Xcode command line tools.