Cross building binutils 2.25.1 for iOS8.4 (arm64-apple-darwin14.0.0)

EDIT. 2015-30-10. I've tried this:

../configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNU-CROSS/binutils-2.25.1/ CC="clang -fembed-bitcode -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.4.sdk -Wno-error -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -mios-version-min=8.4 -no-integrated-as -arch arm64 -target arm64-apple-darwin" CPP="clang -E" CPPFLAGS="-fembed-bitcode -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.4.sdk -Wno-error -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -mios-version-min=8.4 -no-integrated-as -arch arm64 -target arm64-apple-darwin" --host=aarch64-apple-darwin --disable-assembly --enable-static --disable-shared
make -j 4

      

        
        
        
      

    

The setup went fine but make

caused this:

BFD does not support target aarch64-apple-darwin

      

        
        
        
      

    

Initial question.

I am trying to cross-build binutils 2.25.1 for iOS (8.4) 64 bit target. I put the binutils-2.25.1 folder in the target and the config.guess script which gave me arm64-apple-darwin14.0.0. On my host (x86_64-apple-darwin14.4.0), I created a build folder inside binutils-2.25.1 and ran there:

CCFLAGS="--arch arm64" LDFLAGS="--arch arm64" ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/lvm-cross/ --host=arm-apple-darwin

      

        
        
        
      

    

which gave me this:

configure: error: in `/Users/XXXX/Documents/src/gcc-5.2.0-cross/binutils-2.25.1/build':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

      

        
        
        
      

    

All details are in the config.log file at the end.

My question is this: how can I create binutils for this 64 bit purpose?

The config.log file contains the following:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.64.  Invocation command line was

  $ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/lvm-cross/ --host=arm-apple-darwin

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = XXXXs-MacBook-Air.local
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 14.4.0
uname -s = Darwin
uname -v = Darwin Kernel Version 14.4.0: Thu May 28 11:35:04 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.30.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64

/usr/bin/uname -p = i386
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = Mach kernel version:
     Darwin Kernel Version 14.4.0: Thu May 28 11:35:04 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.30.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel configured for up to 4 processors.
2 processors are physically available.
4 processors are logically available.
Processor type: x86_64h (Intel x86-64h Haswell)
Processors active: 0 1 2 3
Primary memory available: 4.00 gigabytes
Default processor set: 239 tasks, 978 threads, 4 processors
Load average: 1.62, Mach factor: 2.37
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /sw/bin
PATH: /sw/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /opt/X11/bin
PATH: /usr/local/git/bin
PATH: /Library/TeX/texbin
PATH: /Users/XXXX/.opam/4.02.2/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2322: checking build system type
configure:2336: result: x86_64-apple-darwin14.4.0
configure:2383: checking host system type
configure:2396: result: arm-apple-darwin
configure:2416: checking target system type
configure:2429: result: arm-apple-darwin
configure:2483: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2551: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2562: checking whether ln works
configure:2584: result: yes
configure:2588: checking whether ln -s works
configure:2592: result: yes
configure:2599: checking for a sed that does not truncate output
configure:2663: result: /usr/bin/sed
configure:2672: checking for gawk
configure:2702: result: no
configure:2672: checking for mawk
configure:2702: result: no
configure:2672: checking for nawk
configure:2702: result: no
configure:2672: checking for awk
configure:2688: found /usr/bin/awk
configure:2699: result: awk
configure:3941: checking for arm-apple-darwin-gcc
configure:3971: result: no
configure:3981: checking for gcc
configure:3997: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:4008: result: gcc
configure:4237: checking for C compiler version
configure:4246: gcc --version >&5
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.4.0
Thread model: posix
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
configure:4257: $? = 0
configure:4246: gcc -v >&5
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.4.0
Thread model: posix
configure:4257: $? = 0
configure:4246: gcc -V >&5
clang: error: argument to '-V' is missing (expected 1 value)
clang: error: no input files
configure:4257: $? = 1
configure:4246: gcc -qversion >&5
clang: error: unknown argument: '-qversion'
clang: error: no input files
configure:4257: $? = 1
configure:4277: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:4299: gcc   --arch arm64 conftest.c  >&5
clang: error: unsupported option '--arch'
clang: error: no such file or directory: 'arm64'
configure:4303: $? = 1
configure:4340: result: 
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:4346: error: in `/Users/XXXX/Documents/src/gcc-5.2.0-cross/binutils-2.25.1/build':
configure:4350: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

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configure: exit 77