fail building ffmpeg for armv6-7 - iphone

Question

I've been trying to build ffmpeg in every possible way I can think of. I'm trying with the latest revision from their git repository and with a build script which I have confirmation that it works, it's from this question: iPhone SDK 4.3 libav compiling problem. The script was updated yesterday and apparently works for the guy in the question.
my problem is that it doesn't generate the .a files (or actually any files) for armv6 anc armv7. and therefor the lipo commands, to concat into universal libs, fail. I've also tried using the build scripts from iFrameExtractor without any success it also fails with the lipo-commands in the end, i get the following:
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libavcodec.a (No such file or directory)
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libavdevice.a (No such file or directory)
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libavfilter.a (No such file or directory)
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libavformat.a (No such file or directory)
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libavutil.a (No such file or directory)
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libpostproc.a (No such file or directory)
lipo: can't open input file: ./compiled/armv6/lib/libswscale.a (No such file or directory)
and i have also posted the entire output here if anyone has any idea what to look for there (because i don't know where to start, it almost 5000 lines of output.)
i should also mention that i'm compiling it for armv6, armv7 and i386. I want to import it in XCode to get H.264 frames from video feed.
when i try to build for armv6 i use the following configure:
./configure \
--enable-cross-compile \
--arch=arm \
--extra-cflags='-arch armv6' \
--extra-ldflags='-arch armv6' \
--target-os=darwin \
--cc=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc \
--sysroot=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.3.sdk \
--cpu=arm1176jzf-s \
--extra-ldflags=-L/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator4.3.sdk/usr/lib/system \
--prefix=compiled/armv6
and get the following output:
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc is unable to create an executable file.
C compiler test failed.
If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
ffmpeg-user#ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem.
so the question, what c compiler should I use? i've tried different:
arm-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1
arm-apple-darwin10-llvm-gcc-4.2
gcc
but with the same result. gcc works for both i386 and armv7 so i guess it should work for armv6 aswell

Answer 1

i used the following to compile only for armv6 and armv7. I couldn't get it working for i386, i receive errors that the cputype and subcputype are wrong. apparently the cputype is supposed to be x86 and subcputype should be intel.
anyhow i used the following build scripts to compile (i ended up using gcc and it worked, it was the configure flags that were wrong from the beginning i guess) for the arm architectures:
build script:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
SCRIPT_DIR=$( (cd -P $(dirname $0) && pwd) )
DIST_DIR_BASE=${DIST_DIR_BASE:="$SCRIPT_DIR/dist"}
if [ -d ffmpeg ]
then
echo "Found ffmpeg source directory, no need to fetch from git..."
else
echo "Fetching ffmpeg from git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git..."
git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg.git
fi
ARCHS=${ARCHS:-"armv6 armv7"}
for ARCH in $ARCHS
do
FFMPEG_DIR=ffmpeg-$ARCH
if [ -d $FFMPEG_DIR ]
then
echo "Removing old directory $FFMPEG_DIR"
rm -rf $FFMPEG_DIR
fi
echo "Copying source for $ARCH to directory $FFMPEG_DIR"
cp -a ffmpeg $FFMPEG_DIR
cd $FFMPEG_DIR
DIST_DIR=$DIST_DIR_BASE-$ARCH
mkdir -p $DIST_DIR
case $ARCH in
armv6)
EXTRA_FLAGS="--enable-cross-compile --target-os=darwin --arch=arm --cpu=arm1176jzf-s"
EXTRA_CFLAGS="-arch $ARCH"
EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-arch $ARCH"
;;
armv7)
EXTRA_FLAGS="--enable-cross-compile --target-os=darwin --arch=arm --cpu=cortex-a8 --enable-pic"
EXTRA_CFLAGS="-arch $ARCH"
EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-arch $ARCH"
;;
x86_64)
EXTRA_CC_FLAGS="-mdynamic-no-pic"
;;
esac
echo "Configuring ffmpeg for $ARCH..."
./configure \
--prefix=$DIST_DIR \
--extra-ldflags=-L/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.3.sdk/usr/lib/system \
--disable-bzlib \
--disable-doc \
--disable-ffmpeg \
--disable-ffplay \
--disable-ffserver \
--cc=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc \
--sysroot=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.3.sdk \
--extra-ldflags="$EXTRA_LDFLAGS" \
--extra-cflags="$EXTRA_CFLAGS" \
$EXTRA_FLAGS
echo "Installing ffmpeg for $ARCH..."
make && make install
cd $SCRIPT_DIR
if [ -d $DIST_DIR/bin ]
then
rm -rf $DIST_DIR/bin
fi
if [ -d $DIST_DIR/share ]
then
rm -rf $DIST_DIR/share
fi
done
and combine libs script:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
ARCHS="armv6 armv7"
for ARCH in $ARCHS
do
if [ -d dist-$ARCH ]
then
MAIN_ARCH=$ARCH
fi
done
if [ -z "$MAIN_ARCH" ]
then
echo "Please compile an architecture"
exit 1
fi
OUTPUT_DIR="dist-uarch"
rm -rf $OUTPUT_DIR
mkdir -p $OUTPUT_DIR/lib $OUTPUT_DIR/include
for LIB in dist-$MAIN_ARCH/lib/*.a
do
LIB=`basename $LIB`
LIPO_CREATE=""
for ARCH in $ARCHS
do
if [ -d dist-$ARCH ]
then
LIPO_CREATE="$LIPO_CREATE-arch $ARCH dist-$ARCH/lib/$LIB "
fi
done
OUTPUT="$OUTPUT_DIR/lib/$LIB"
echo "Creating: $OUTPUT"
lipo -create $LIPO_CREATE -output $OUTPUT
lipo -info $OUTPUT
done
echo "Copying headers from dist-$MAIN_ARCH..."
cp -R dist-$MAIN_ARCH/include/* $OUTPUT_DIR/include
then i import the .a files from BUILD-FOLDER/dist-uarch and it builds in xcode like a charm!