Success Story
Success Story
- Subject: Success Story
- From: "William C. McCain" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:51:26 -0800
Since the vast majority of posts are pleas for help with problems, I
thought it would be nice to post a "positive result" for a change. I am
pleased to say that my "universal binary" project went smoothly and
tested successfully. Start to finish: about 72 hours (3 days) -- I
started on Friday and finished today, Monday.
Many thanks to the members of this forum, especially Eric Albert of
Apple, who answered many of my "Xcode newbie" questions ("Desperate for
Xcode Help") on Friday afternoon and evening.
Over the past weekend, I upgraded one of my iMacs to Tiger (10.4.4) and
to Xcode 2.2.1. After struggling with Xcode 1.5 on Friday, building my
dynamic library project in Xcode 2.2 was comparatively easy. Obviously
much of this was due to having obtained some experience with Xcode --
however, subjectively, I do believe that 2.2 is "less quirky" than the
older version.
The universal binary was easy to build, there were zero (0) changes
required to my source code. Of course, this reflects the fact that my
original C code was quite straightforward and interfaced with just three
frameworks (JavaVM, CoreFoundation, and IOKit). On Sunday, the
universal version tested successfully on a G3 under Panther and a G4
under Tiger. Today, at the local Apple Store, I tested it successfully
on an Intel-based iMac.
Sure, this was the "low-budget" approach to dual-platform porting (I'm
nothing if not thrifty). But I do intend to buy an Intel-based Mac
mini, whenever they become available. In fact, I am also strongly
considering buying two Intel-based rack-mounted Xserves, when available
-- one to replace my aging external Web server and one to use as an
internal file-and-print server.
Bill
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