[fpc-pascal] Cross-compiling for a different Mac OS X version (was: Re: OT: Buy a Mac to develop for MacOS? Which one?)

[John Stoneham]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>wrote:

>
> On 13 Oct 2008, at 02:42, John Stoneham wrote:
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>  Until Apple makes a 17" MacBook Pro
>>
>
>
> Well, they already do, albeit with a lower resolution than your Dell.


I suppose I should say, "until I can afford one", heh? They do offer a 17"
LED-backlit version that's 1920x1200. Way out of my pricerange, though.

beileve
>> Apple went Intel-only with the release of Leopard
>>
>
>
> No, they didn't. That will probably happen with the next release (10.6, aka
> Snow Leopard).


I meant Apple hardware. Yes, Leopard itself supports PPC for those people
with older G5s or G4s who want the new OS, but all hardware sine Auguest
2006 has been intel only.


>
>
>  and most Tiger machines
>> were intel as well
>>
>
> Not really.


Well, every Tiger machine made since August 2006 was Intel based. Leopard
wasn't released until October 2007, so that's quite a few Intel-only Tiger
machines.


>
>
>  Plus, if you compile your app on Tiger, it will
>> run on Leopard, but not the other way around.
>>
>
> You can compile apps on Leopard which run all the way back to Jaguar
> (10.2.8). You do have to use the proper SDK (-XR/path/to/SDK) and tell the
> linker to generate compatible binaries (-k"-macosx_version_min 10.2" or
> whatever).
>

Yes, it's tricky. I never did get it to work right. However, since Lazarus
apps compiled on Tiger run just fine on Leopard, that's the solution I've
been taking.

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