RE: -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 and nm, strings, otool, et al
RE: -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 and nm, strings, otool, et al
- Subject: RE: -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 and nm, strings, otool, et al
- From: "Dallman, John" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:48:16 +0200
- Thread-topic: -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 and nm, strings, otool, et al
> If you need to keep older versions of the library under
> maintenance, you should keep an old build environment around.
That's what we do on most platforms. However, Apple are fairly
proactive about dropping security patch support for old versions
of Mac OS X, and our timescales are quite long. Backwards
compatibility offered the chance to avoid needing to still be
building on 10.5 in about 2014.
> It is perfectly possible for code to be (carefully) written
> so that it can take advantage of 10.5 API when running on
> 10.5 but still be loadable on 10.4,
> This part is due to the version of GCC used. If you build
> against the 10.4 SDK, you have to use GCC 4.0, not 4.2.
Thanks, those make sense now.
Bug report and DTS coming up.
best,
--
John Dallman
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