Re: Compiling Zsh for Mac PowerPC and Intel

["William G. Scott" <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Apr 22,  9:31am, TjL wrote:
> }
> } My question is, how do I compile zsh so I end up with a  
> "universal" binary?
>
> I'm no expert, but "man cc" seems to indicate that you have to pass  
> the
> -arch option to the compiler multiple times.
>
> This did it for me:
>
>    make clean
>    make CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc -arch ppc64' LDFLAGS='${CFLAGS}'
>
> And now:
>
> schaefer[398] file Src/zsh
> Src/zsh: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
> Src/zsh (for architecture i386):        Mach-O executable i386
> Src/zsh (for architecture ppc7400):     Mach-O executable ppc
> Src/zsh (for architecture ppc64):       Mach-O 64-bit executable ppc64
>
> I have no idea whether it'll actually *run* on all three platforms.

I compiled on intel and tested it on ppc (both 10.5) and it works as  
advertised.  Haven't tried 64-bit yet, but I am glad to see that it  
will be this easy...

dev3 compiles fine on ppc and intel 10.5, fwiw.

Bill



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