[plt-scheme] Universal Binaries?

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 20 16:04:45 EDT 2006

At Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:01:12 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Aug 20, Matt Jadud wrote:
> > Am I able to build (or am I building?) universal binaries when I
> > build MzScheme/MrEd apps?
> 
> You're not building universal binaries.  (I'll leave the question of
> whether you're able to for Matthew.)
> 
> 
> > Eg. When I say "mzc --exe foo foo.scm && mzc --exe-dir foo-dir foo"
> > , is that bundling up a universal binary? What about "Build
> > Application" (or... whatever its called) in DrScheme? If I create a
> > MrEd executable for distribution, can that application be executed
> > on either a PPC or Intel Mac?
> 
> No -- these all construct a distribution directory by copying stuff
> that is found in your PLT installation, so it is not universal.

But, just in case it you didn't already know -- if you build on a ppc
machine, it will run on both kinds of computers (because the intel
machines have built-in emulators).

Robby


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