[quake3] Mac Universal Binaries

[Zachary Slater]

Jorge Peña wrote:
> Hey guys, you probably remember me asking about how to build on Mac, 
> well I got it and it's working perfectly! However, if you remember 
> correctly, I had to remove the i386 targets for the bash make script 
> because it wouldn't build. Well, it turns out that now someone else on a 
> Mac Intel wants a copy, so I at first figured that I would have to 
> re-build the whole thing on their computer, and well, they're not really 
> computer oriented and they might not be as happy to have me SSH into 
> their computer as my other friend would. So I asked if this was 
> necessary inside #mac freenode, and they said that if they are Universal 
> Binaries then they should work just fine. I was wondering how that was 
> so, so I looked here [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary ], 
> I found out that basically it consists of binaries for both 
> architectures within the same 'package', and the host computer 
> automatically chooses the correct binaries. I was wondering if it was 
> possible to build binaries for both architectures on PPC, and I read 
> this [ http://developer.apple.com/macosx/adoptinguniversalbinaries.html 
> ] which seemed to say it was possible. However I remembered that I 
> removed the i386/Intel targets in the make bash script (Not the 
> makefile, but the make mac bash script) because it wouldn't build. I 
> found a document from Apple that helps with building a universal binary 
> here [ 
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary.pdf 
> ].
> 
> I think the reason that it didn't build last time was because I had PPC 
> versions of the dependencies (I remember it arguing about mismatching 
> architectures), so that's why I'm wondering if you guys know how to 
> build Intel versions of the dependencies. My other question is, am I 
> right in all of this? Does the ioquake3 Makefile usually automatically 
> create the Universal Binaries? I think so, because I think I remember it 
> building without complaining before I added all the dependencies. I'll 
> try to look for 'Universal Binaries' of the dependencies in the 
> meantime, but I first want to make sure I'm right in all this before I 
> go through more of a waste of time. Thanks guys I really appreciate it!


Sorry I can't say much more besides that I use make-macosx-ub.sh and it 
works perfectly.
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- Zachary J. Slater
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zacharyslater at gmail.com