[SDL] Mac OS X Universal Binaries

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Torsten,

Saturday, December 2, 2006, 4:10:21 PM, you wrote:

> Is there any way to see what OSX version
> an Universal Binary needs to run on ppc and/or i386 ?

For PPC, provided you compile the PPC code with gcc 3, it runs on 10.2
and later. i386 must be compiled with gcc 4 which runs on 10.4. PPC
code compiled with gcc 4 needs 10.3.9 to work.

If you want to have a UB which will work for PPC back to 10.2.x, you
must compile ppc and i386 code seperately, and glue the two
executables together with the lipo tool.

Please tell Apple how stupid this is, and demand that they make gcc 4
code work on earlier OS's. As a result of this, and bugs in gcc 3, the
ports I have done simply require 10.3.9 or later to run.

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Best regards,
 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com