Star Apple's Intel Move Still Riling Mac Developers
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Apr 2006 18:31 UTC
Mac OS X As Apple moves from IBM's and Freescale's PowerPC RISC architecture to Intel processors, developers must rebuild their products to support both platforms, into what Apple calls a UB (Universal Binary). And while Apple lists over 1000 UB applications currently available, this process is challenging developers, especially those of some of the largest and most critical applications for the platform.
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Dual-Architecture is bad for porting
by taschenorakel on Sun 2nd Apr 2006 20:37 UTC
taschenorakel
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2005-07-06

Also planing some trivial app to MacOS X. Problem: Facing PPC and Intel architecture now, I'd have to buy two Macs for testing. Guess my app is too trivial to justify this investment.

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zizban Member since:
2005-07-06

No you don't, at least according to Apple. You just compile it for both in Xcode. Whether this work for all apps, alll the time remains to be seen.

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markus Member since:
2006-01-14

You can develop with an x86 Mac only by compiling for PPC and using Rosetta for testing the PPC code.

(You can try two Xcode projects (PPC, x86) or a Universal an forcing it to run under Rosetta).

So you need only one Mac for you project.

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