urig-herb Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 All in the topic title... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugu Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Its not possible at the moment. But I dont really see why you want one, since Firefox compile fine on both PPC and x86. Just pick the one who suits your system... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/#findComment-14516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urig-herb Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Its not possible at the moment.But I dont really see why you want one, since Firefox compile fine on both PPC and x86. Just pick the one who suits your system... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm using Deer Park x86 right now. But I wanted the latest Firefox build in universal or x86 binary version. Why isn't this possible at the moment? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/#findComment-14519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugu Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Why isn't this possible at the moment?Simply because the Mozilla source dont have the needed code to produce an universal binary, yet.The loader code that executes the big-endian (PPC) or the little-endian (x86) firefox-bin have not been written yet. Ok, its not 100% true that its not possible. Because the source code is open-source, so anybody can write the needed code themselves! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/#findComment-14546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blahsucks Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I'm sure it would be trivial to produce an x86-only binary, as long as we have all the libraries and such needed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/#findComment-14556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urig-herb Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Simply because the Mozilla source dont have the needed code to produce an universal binary, yet.The loader code that executes the big-endian (PPC) or the little-endian (x86) firefox-bin have not been written yet. Ok, its not 100% true that its not possible. Because the source code is open-source, so anybody can write the needed code themselves! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thank you for the information. I thought that the fact that there is a Deer Park beta2 x86 binary available (using it right know) means that the build process is not too complicated. By the way, Deer Park beta2 works really good for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/#findComment-14558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugu Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I'm sure it would be trivial to produce an x86-only binary, as long as we have all the libraries and such needed. Correct, building Firefox is fairly easy (I have compiled Firefox and Camino every day the last year). The problem is that building the required libraries on OSx86 is troublesome. Ex. I asked for help on building glib-1.2.10 here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=2123 Other ways to get a working libIDL is welcome as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2210-firefox-15b1-as-universal-binary/#findComment-14571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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