[Bf-committers] Diff patch for Intel Macs

[Ed Halley]

On Jul 1, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I've replace my old iBook with a new powerbook yesterday, so  
> finally could check on the patch!
> The changes look fine, but before I commit there's a couple of  
> issues to solve;
>
> - OpenAL indeed doesn't work yet, that will take some work  
> (hopefully not me!)

<aol> Not me either! </aol>

> - The darwin ports libintl (and the one I compiled myself) doesn't  
> run without linking with libiconv.a too. Is that your experience too?

I just needed libiconv itself, and I used DarwinPorts' gettext to  
fetch the library itself.

> - OpenEXR has a new release with intel mac support, that needs a  
> new thread

I just used the DarwinPorts OpenEXR-- I wasn't too aware of any  
special needs there, it has worked for over a month so maybe I was  
using a ppc version without realizing it.

> What I can do is make all precompiled libs available in cvs lib/  
> directory (including exr), so a checkout and compile will become  
> pretty painless.

Timothy-somebody posted a lib/ which I used.  I think Doug also used  
this same library set.  I did a hackish fix for tiff*.h, just copying  
it into the lib/ from the DarwinPorts version of libtiff.

> But, before I do so, would like to hear some feedback from others  
> who got it to compile for OSX... anything else to be aware of?

Even though you've already gone through the hassle, I'll attach my  
notes, which details what a new MacBook user needs to do to build cvs  
as of today.

One thing that I would like to see is that the OSX (make release)  
steps automatically build a properly compressed .dmg file instead of  
a tarball.  For i386, you can depend on 10.4+ and UDBZ compression,  
but for ppc you may still want to support older OSX builds that don't  
have UDBZ.  I once tried to stick the appropriate commands into the  
release/ makefile, in place of the tarballing step, but something  
wasn't working properly.

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