Re: Tips to deploy applications to multiple Mac OS X versions
Re: Tips to deploy applications to multiple Mac OS X versions
- Subject: Re: Tips to deploy applications to multiple Mac OS X versions
- From: Ben Lachman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:08:18 -0400
On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:27 PM, David Duncan wrote:
On Apr 9, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Lorenzo Bevilacqua wrote:
I'm trying to build a Cocoa application so that it can run on Mac
OS X from version 10.3.9 to 10.5.
I have 10.5 installed so the application runs fine on my system
and on other Leopard systems.
I haven't build a project for multiple platforms yet, so I tried
to duplicate the main Xcode target and set different deployment
target settings like
Typically you would only use 1 target. Use the SDK to the OS whose
API your are targeting (such as the 10.5 SDK). Then set the
deployment target to the minimum version you wish to run on
(example, 10.3). Finally, you would do runtime checks for API
availability.
This is totally true. Multiple binaries make unhappy users. Of
course buggy cross-version binaries make unhappy users too.
- Is there a way to differentiate part of code by platform? I
remember I saw in some files lines like this
#if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET == MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_4
#endif
is this correct?
This is a compile time check. Generally it is appropriate if you
plan to ship a binary with a specific compile-time dependency. It
sounds like you really want a run time check, which requires you to
check for the availability of the features you are trying to use.
How you check for this will depend on what you are doing to some
degree.
To elaborate:
Your code will have checks like this in it:
if( [someObject respondsToSelector:@selector
(niftyLeopardFeatureMethod:)] )
[someObject niftyLeopardFeatureMethod:anotherObject];
else
// handle the 10.4 and/or 10.3.9 case
If you would like to be able to build your project on Tiger/Panther
you will have to enclose version specific code in "#if
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET ..." compiler directives.
you should also read:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/
cross_development/index.html>
->Ben
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