[GEM-dev] MacIntel binaries

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Tue Jan 9 17:16:30 CET 2007


chris clepper wrote:
> On 1/9/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>>
>> yesterday i had a hard time building Gem on a powerbook pro.
> 
> They changed the name to the horrible MacBook Pro.  As a friend of
> mine says 'Anytime you have to put the word Pro in the name of your
> product, you are in trouble.'
> 
>> or even simpler: anyone with a macintel binary lying around?
> 
> I have one attached.  The mail list might filter it out though as it is
> 141Kb.

thanks; cannot test it now though, since the student with his laptop is
not here right now.
however, i was rather asking for a Gem.pd_darwin (including static ftgl
support) built for macintel.
do you happen to have one of these too?
i could put it online on the iem-site.

> 
>> PPS: i get loads of deprecation warnings as soon as it comes to
>> quicktime-specific function calls. is this normal?
> 
> Unfortunately it is normal.  Apple development is managed by a group
> of children.  In the near future all of the Quicktime functionality in
> GEM will be deprecated on OSX.  Apple expects all OSX Quicktime
> development to use Cocoa from now on even though it is incomplete,
> lacks the decade or more of stress testing in the current Carbon based
> API and not appropriate for the vast majority of Quicktime
> applications.

cool. and i always thought the FLOSS world had problems with APIs that
are quickly outdated.... ;-), or rather :-(

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IOhannes




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