[Interest] universal builds on OS X

Kevin Mcintyre kebin70 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 18:45:17 CEST 2016


Is it possible to build for IPhone from Ubuntu?  Any tutorials of starter
docs would be greatly appreciated.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:51 AM, René J. V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>
> > 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?
>
> It's a question I've been asking myself, but AFAIK 10.9 still runs on 32bit
> hardware. I haven't seen any indication that Qt 5.6 or 5.7 require 10.8 or
> newer, and 10.7 *definitely* still runs on 32bit hardware. With its own
> Xcode of
> course. So yes, there's still a purpose.
>
> FWIW, there are drivers for things like (older though by no means ancient)
> scanners that exist only in 32bit. Having the possibility to build
> applications
> supporting that type of hardware as universal binaries and then starting
> them in
> 32bit mode is a big advantage. That's an actual example I "have to live
> with"
> (not with a Qt app but it could well have been).
>
> R.
>
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