[Bf-committers] No 64 bits Blender in OSX.... :(

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Being once victim of marketing hypers, I thought to check the microsoft  
website on what their 64 bits XP exactly offers. Again very hard to get  
real info here, but here's one no-go statement already:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896456
"The x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 and of Windows XP  
Professional x64 Edition do not include an OpenGL graphics driver."

Tada! :)

-Ton-

On 28 Apr, 2005, at 5:12, Chris Burt wrote:

> There is also a 64-bit version of Windows to be release very soon (if  
> not already) if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure someone could compile a  
> 64-bit version for that platform. Then Windows and Linux would be  
> frontrunner.
>
> Regards,
> --Chris
>
> P.S. Sorry to hear your disappointment ton! You seem genuinely bummed  
> out about this. Just gotta poke Apple and let them no how sorry it is!
>
> Martin Poirier wrote:
>> I suggest you reread what Ton said, it answers all
>> your questions.
>> Martin
>> --- car <trip at spymac.com> wrote:
>>> Well it does compile no ? Is it faster ? And all
>>> that whatever stuff, either way will you have a copy
>>> ready for us tiger users to test ? It is not like 64 bit is hugely  
>>> needed yet,
>>> but Anything that makes this faster is always a
>>> plus.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed Apr 27 16:28 , Ton Roosendaal
>>> <ton at blender.org> sent:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Well, after making gigas of backups, repartitioning
>>>
>>> disks, burning
>>>> dvds, installing Tiger, trying to fix the gcc4
>>>
>>> issues... then finally
>>>> ready for compiling Blender 64 bits to only find
>>>
>>> out that Mac OSX 10.4
>>>> only suports 2 core library frameworks for it... no
>>>
>>> OpenGL, no Carbon,
>>>> no Quicktime, no nothing!
>>>>
>>>> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/64bit.html
>>>>
>>>> Oh yah, that info is there... :-)
>>>>
>>>> Only possibility is to split off a render-only
>>>
>>> module... well for OSX.
>>>> Probably for real 64 bits benefits we'll have to
>>>
>>> make the Linux version
>>>> a frontrunner!
>>>>
>>>> -Ton-
>>>>
>>>
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