[PD] external binary file extensions for 32 and 64bit under recent OS X

[Dan Wilcox]

Christof,

Let's put this in a new DEVELOPER.txt file in the Pd root. I think it could be a good companion to the INSTALL.txt along with other lower-level details...

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 7:49 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> apart from the "generic" library extensions (".pd_darwin", ".pd_linux", 
> ".so" and ".dll"), Pd also supports platform specific extensions, with a 
> OS prefix and the CPU architecture:
> 
> Prefixes:
> 
> "m_" -> Windows
> 
> "d_" -> macOS
> 
> "l_" -> Linux
> 
> "o_" -> OpenBSD
> 
> Architectures:
> 
> "amd64" -> Intel 64-bit
> 
> "i386" -> Intel 32-bit
> 
> "arm" -> Arm 32-bit
> 
> "arm64" -> Arm 64-bit
> 
> "ppc" -> PowerPC
> 
> ---
> 
> In your case, you can ship two different binaries next to each other: 
> ".d_i386" and ".d_amd64".
> 
> Finally, macOS also supports fat binaries, where several architectures 
> are contained within a single binary. These have the extension ".d_fat".
> 
> Christof

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