Careless Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 how does one go about making a PPC application into a universal binary that supports Intel Applications aswell?! like the azureus. how would we do that?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7525-how-do-we-make-uni-bins/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugu Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 You have several options: 1. Compile the source on an an PowerPC Mac, compile the same source on an Intel Mac, then merge them to an universal binary with lipo. 2. Compile and crosscompile the source on a Mac (Intel or PowerPC), then merge them to an universal binary with lipo. 3. Compile directly to an universal binary on a Mac (PowerPC or Intel). 4. Download separate precompiled Intel an PowerPC binaries, then merge them to an universal binary with lipo. It depends how the source are set up and which build system and compiler it requires. Xcode or configure/make, GCC 3.3 or 4.0 .... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7525-how-do-we-make-uni-bins/#findComment-47134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 how does one go about making a PPC application into a universal binary that supports Intel Applications aswell?! like the azureus. how would we do that?! Azureus is in Java and should work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7525-how-do-we-make-uni-bins/#findComment-47137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 and what is involved in this "recompiling" of files? is it going through copious ammounts of code that will give me headaches, or what? in other words. its not possible for someone with no real coding knowledge to do this, right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7525-how-do-we-make-uni-bins/#findComment-47142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugu Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 (edited) I Azureus is you main target, then I would pick up the PowerPC and Intel builds and merge them with lipo No need to use much time to build them yourself when they are available... Intel -> http://www.uploading.com/get.php?get=29SV4Q5Z PowerPC -> http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php Azureus is not a native (Cocoa or Carbon) Mac OS X application, so afaik it dont build using Xcode or a straight configure/make. But if you really want to give it a try, first install Xcode Tools. Then download and unpack the Azureus source code: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/azureus...ce.zip?download That said, building applications is not for everybody. Since it sometimes involves modifying source code to get a successful build. Edited January 23, 2006 by Fugu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7525-how-do-we-make-uni-bins/#findComment-47230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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