Re: Is X11 64bit on 10.6.7?
Re: Is X11 64bit on 10.6.7?
- Subject: Re: Is X11 64bit on 10.6.7?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:45:36 -0700
I think what was intended got morphed at some point before it went into print. My guess is that item should be referencing that X11 did not abandon all the old Carbon APIs for the newer Cocoa APIs. Not all Carbon APIs are 64bit capable, so often times Carbon applications can't be built 64bit, but we're not in that boat. Indeed it wasn't "rewritten", but it still works.
This is the reality:
Tiger:
server: i386 ppc
executables (/usr/X11/bin): i386 ppc
libraries (/usr/X11/lib): i386 ppc
Leopard:
server: i386 ppc
executables (/usr/X11/bin): i386 ppc
libraries (/usr/X11/lib): i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64
Snow Leopard:
server: i386 x86_64
executables (/usr/X11/bin): i386 x86_64
libraries (/usr/X11/lib): i386 x86_64 ppc
So you could make your 64bit X11 application on Leopard if you'd like. The server present in Leopard is capable of being built for x86_64, but that's just how we shipped back then.
--Jeremy
On Apr 2, 2011, at 04:28, Asiga Nael wrote:
>
> --- On vie, 1/4/11, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Where did you read that? We supported 64bit X11 applications on
>> Leopard (both x86_64 and ppc64).
>
> Here:
> http://www.apple.com/ie/macosx/technology/
>
> The line of interest, at the bottom of that page:
> "All system applications except DVD Player, Front Row, Grapher, iTunes and X11 have been rewritten in 64-bit."
>
> However, it doesn't clarify the meaning for "rewritten". Maybe it wanted to say that X11 wasn't rewritten for 64bit, but it was successfully built in 64 bit anyway.
>
> Thanks a lot for clarifying that I can build 64 bit X11 apps with the default XCode install.
> Asiga
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