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[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 21:04, Yue Wang wrote:
>
> Hey, how did you install your Snow Leopard.

It was preinstalled. But I'm looking for a screw-driver to replace the
hard drive, so I'll have to install it anyway.

> Default installation didn't install Rosetta.

I know about Rosetta, but I also thought that if we figure out how to
"properly" cross-compile, it might be a bit easier to also compile
64-bit binaries on 32-bit machines etc.

> Xcode support the past two versions of OS X. for example, Xcode in
> 10.5 should support 10.4 and 10.5, and 10.3 in optional install.

I didn't know that. I only had support for 10.4 on 10.5, so I was
surprised to learn that 10.4 was still available.

> But
> in fact that is not a big problem, these backward supports are usually
> for Cocoa APIs (For example, each version of OS X deprecates a lot of
> Cocoa APIs, but you are still able to compile the program and run them
> in old versions since for most of the time they provide binary
> compatibility). For traditional ANSI or POSIX C programs like LuaTeX,
> I think it won't be a problem.

I remember that I compiled TeX binaries on Leopard and people started
complaining that they were not able to use them on Tiger.

Do you have any idea how to cross-compile XeTeX (with export
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4)?

>> 3.) We have never really started to use universal binaries, and maybe
>> there's no need to do so. Some people were enthusiastic about
>> universal binaries, but the truth is that Apple already dropped all
>> the ppc stuff out of their OS and now makes i386+x86_64 fat binaries.
>
> I think either way is ok.  fat binaries are good, but they are fat. I
> can compile ppc+i386+x86_64 binaries without any problems.

I have already committed the luatex for i386. Feel free to commit the
binary for ppc and 64-bit (that need a new directory structure first),
but make sure to use
    export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4

The building script needs to be adapted anyway. (Some scripts in SVN
have been modified already, but not all of them yet.)

Mojca