On 2010-08-17 21:18, Walter Bright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.343.1282068838.13841.digitalmar...@puremagic.com...
But he's a Mac user! :p
Heh, that was exactly my thought ;) I'm not a mac user
(nearly-immediate obsolescence is one of the reasons I left the Mac
world after giving OSX a serious try for a couple years). My primary
OS is ten years old (unless you count service packs), and I'm
perfectly happy with it (well, much more happy than I would be with
the newer versions of it, like Win7 - I swear, MS's devs are getting
to be like Mozilla's).
I'm using a 10 year old Windows XP version, but the difference between
the Mac world and the Windows world is Microsoft cares about legacy
compatibility, and my experience with Mac OS X 10.4 .. 10.6 is that
Apple goes out of their way to make it difficult to build backwards
compatible binaries.
Take a look at the dmd makefiles for OS X. Worse, Apple's documentation
on how to do this is contradictory and spread out over obscure web
pages, so there's a fair amount of trial and error to get it set up
right. (If Apple cared about this, there'd be nothing more than a switch
to g++ along the lines of -osx=10.4 and it'll do whatever is necessary
to build a backward compatible binary.)
It's called -mmacosx-version-min. Just add the version number like this:
gcc main.c -o main -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
On the other hand, OS X upgrades tend to be cheap ($25) while Windows
upgrades tend to be expensive (hundreds of $).
--
/Jacob Carlborg
