Universal Binary / Nexuiz 1.6 on macintel ?

[obi_wan]

Hi
I was wondering if the Nexuiz 1.6 mac version will be universal binary ?

[esteel]

I read about plans for a universal binary.. so i guess yes there will be one.

[Willis]

Well, for starters, the mac shell the devs normally use is currently down. Further from that, from what I understand, the library linking has been completely changed in the change to macintel, so the older way of compiling libraries will no longer work.

And since I haven't seen much for mac compile testing reguarding fat builds, I wouldn't expect to see it for 1.6.

However, from my understanding, it will compile on a macintel. so dual binaries may be an option provided there is a place to have it compiled.

[divVerent]

Well, for starters, the mac shell the devs normally use is currently down. Further from that, from what I understand, the library linking has been completely changed in the change to macintel, so the older way of compiling libraries will no longer work.

And since I haven't seen much for mac compile testing reguarding fat builds, I wouldn't expect to see it for 1.6.

However, from my understanding, it will compile on a macintel. so dual binaries may be an option provided there is a place to have it compiled.

I have done some testing and working build scripts to make universal binaries - it isn't more than removing the dependency tracking (Apple fscked it up) and adding the flags "-arch i386 -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk" to $CC.

However, SDL does not compile as universal library (Apple implemented universal binaries in a way that broke GNU libtool and static libraries) and I haven't yet found out what exactly wrong. SDL's main problem is that libSDLmain is only built as static library, and apparently these can't be universal.

But the dedicatd server and the AGL build compile fine as universal binaries, and the bugs of the AGL build seem to have been fixed.

[obi_wan]

But the dedicatd server and the AGL build compile fine as universal binaries, and the bugs of the AGL build seem to have been fixed.

what are the differences between sdl and agl version ?

[esteel]

what are the differences between sdl and agl version ?

The agl version uses native functions to access the hardware, the sdl version uses the crossplatform library sdl (Simple DirectMedia Layer).
SDL is good but not perfect, so in some boarder cases the native versions (agl for mac, wgl for windows and glx for linux) might work when the sdl version has problems.

[jeffbax]

Hey, new registration.

Just wanted to show my support for a UB or separate PPC / Intel binaries. I would love to fire this up on my Intel Mac

[Asraniel]

isnt there one? i always thougth so

[divVerent]

isnt there one? i always thougth so

The released Nexuiz 2.0 binaries are all universal. However, it is my fault that they are misnamed... just ignore the "ppc" in the file name, you can check using lipo that they are in fact universal.