Re: [ft] How to compile universal freetype on MacOS X 10.4?

[Russell E Owen]

At 12:01 AM +0200 2006-09-22, Tor Andersson wrote:
> > I'm trying to build a universal (ppc and i386) libfreetype 2.1.12 (or
> > any reasonably recent version) on my PPC Mac (10.4.7 with XCode 2.4). I
> > can built something, but it's always PPC-only.
> I believe that you need to compile twice, once with each -arch flag, to
> separate files. Then you merge together the two resulting (i386 and ppc)
> dylib files with "lipo".
>
> At least that's how Xcode does it. I do not believe that gcc can 
> compile to both
> architectures in the same command, which it looks like you're trying to do.
I suppose that may be necessary for freetype. I hope not, because I 
don't have easy access to an Intel Mac.
However, if you are making a blanket assertion that having gcc build 
for both i386 and ppc at the same time doesn't work...that's wrong. 
The tech note I reference shows how to do it, and it works just fine 
for libpng.
Also, I know somebody who built a universal libfreetype on his Intel 
Mac. He claims to have used a similar incantation (and doing it all 
at once, not building separately and combining) but he doesn't 
remember the exact details.
-- Russell