[quake3] [ioquake] SMP build on OS X?

Tony J. White tjw at webteam.net
Tue Nov 28 16:05:03 EST 2006


On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:38:43PM -0800, Daniel Lord wrote:
> Compile succeeded for the universal binary on my Mac Book Pro (Intel) and seems 
> to run fine.
> 
> However, I noticed an SMP build directory which didn't seem to be utilized 
> (perhaps I am wrong) and, since the Macbook Pro uses a dual core (i.e. SMP), 
> I'd like to build for it.
> The OS X build instructions don't set   BUILD_CLIENT_SMP  so I am assuming the 
> build is not SMP capable.
> If I set   BUILD_CLIENT_SMP = 1 i in the Makefile will that suffice?
> 
> I know in the past, one only needed to change a cvar to enable SMP support.
> Is that the case here or do I need to modify the build shell script and make 
> file?

The universal binary is always built with SMP support (-DSMP is in the
cflags).  It's off by default though, you still have to enable it with
the r_smp cvar.

-Tony




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