Consider adding a Mac Catalyst build option

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, python
Domain
build-system, operating-systems

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing CPython’s existing macOS build process and the referenced PyObjC issue; done means defining and implementing a supported Mac Catalyst build option for recent macOS versions.

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Description

build OS-mac type-feature

Feature or enhancement

Support the "Mac Catalyst" flavour of macOS binaries on recentish version of macOS

Pitch

MacOS currently has two ways to build "native" applications:

  1. The macOS binaries used from macOS 10.0, for ease of reference I'll call these "Cocoa"
  2. MacCatalyst binaries that link to (a subset) of the frameworks used on iOS, but recompiled for macOS

The latter have access to some interesting system APIs that former cannot use, such as the HomeKit framework. The current builds are "Cocoa" builds.

Previous discussion

There is no previous discussion of Python forums. This issue was triggered by an issue on PyObjC's tracker https://github.com/ronaldoussoren/pyobjc/issues/501.

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