Re: [ft] How to compile universal freetype on MacOS X 10.4?

[Tor Andersson]

On 9/22/06, Russell E Owen <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 12:01 AM +0200 2006-09-22, Tor Andersson wrote:
> >>I'm trying to build a universal (ppc and i386) libfreetype 2.1.12 (or
> >>any reasonably recent version) on my PPC Mac (10.4.7 with XCode 2.4). I
> >>can built something, but it's always PPC-only.
> >
> >I believe that you need to compile twice, once with each -arch flag, to
> >separate files. Then you merge together the two resulting (i386 and ppc)
> >dylib files with "lipo".
> >
> >At least that's how Xcode does it. I do not believe that gcc can
> >compile to both
> >architectures in the same command, which it looks like you're trying to do.
>
> I suppose that may be necessary for freetype. I hope not, because I
> don't have easy access to an Intel Mac.
>
> However, if you are making a blanket assertion that having gcc build
> for both i386 and ppc at the same time doesn't work...that's wrong.
> The tech note I reference shows how to do it, and it works just fine
> for libpng.

That's what I meant, so I guess I am wrong.

I've built universal apps on ppc macs, but I've always
used Xcode (which compiles the architectures separately)
and/or lipo to stitch the architectures together into a fat binary.

> Also, I know somebody who built a universal libfreetype on his Intel
> Mac. He claims to have used a similar incantation (and doing it all
> at once, not building separately and combining) but he doesn't
> remember the exact details.