Re: [ft-devel] Minor misc patches to freetype cvs, from custom changes in vtk

[Sean McBride]

On 3/23/07 7:04 AM, address@hidden said:

>I see. Yet I've not checked 10.4.9, can it run 64bit Intel
>Mac executables? I think Mac OS X upto 10.4.8 cannot execute
>64bit Intel Mac executables.
>In the other word, the case we have to exclude is "building
>64bit Intel Mac binary ON 10.4.9", not "building 64bit Intel
>Mac binary FOR 10.4.9" ?

64 bit support is the same for both Intel and PPC.  64 bit support is
the same from 10.4.0 to 10.4.9.  64 bit support is the same wether you
are 'building on' or 'building for'.

On 10.4.x (on either PPC or Intel) you _can_ create 64 bit executables.
But they can _only_ link against System.framework and
Accelerate.framework.  A 64 bit executable cannot link against
Carbon.framework, because Carbon.framework is only 32 bit.  So, freetype
can be built as 64 bit if ftmac.c is excluded.  ftmac.c cannot be built
as 64 bit because it uses Carbon.framework.

On 10.5 this restriction is gone, but other changes will be needed for
10.5, so I don't think we should worry yet.

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