[Interest] universal builds on OS X

Hamish Moffatt hamish at risingsoftware.com
Tue Jun 21 01:07:57 CEST 2016


On 19/06/16 04:24, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've ran into a question about building universal binaries on OS X. I know that Qt5 itself cannot be built the straightforward way but requires post-build "lipo'ing". But what about "client" applications? Some quick testing with tweaking of the generated Makefiles shows that simple ones build just fine (right up to the point where the linker discovers I don't have universal Qt5 frameworks installed :)).
>
> Does anyone know?

Out of interest, for what purpose? There hasn't been a 32-bit Mac built 
since before 2008. Does current Qt and Xcode even support an OS X 
version old enough to run on a 32-bit Mac?

Hamish



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