On Dec 15, 2025, at 10:40, lars sonchocky-helldorf wrote: > > So to run Freehand I need either to run a PPC Emulation to run up to 10.5.8 > PPC or a x86 Emulation to run up to 10.6.8 which was the last to emulate PPC > on x86. I tried the later first and it worked in principle but happened to be > very unstable: Everything from kernel panics to application crashes of > Freehand. Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to opt for an emulation (of PowerPC > by Rosetta) inside an emulation (of x86 by QEMU). I use QEMU in form of UTM > to emulate those virtual machines on my M4 Max MBP. > The direct PPC emulation for a Mac OS X 10.5.8 guest proved to be much > stabler.
Some years back I tried running PowerPC Mac OS X in UTM on an M1 Mac and had some problems so thanks for letting us know it works ok now! I'll have to revisit that. > So now came the point where I needed to be able to share Files between the > Mac OS X 10.5.8 guest and my macOS 15.7.2 host. I find FTP works well to share files with older systems. QuickFTP is a free FTP server you can get from the Mac App Store and run on your modern Mac. You can connect to it from your old system using its web browser, a dedicated FTP client like Interarchy or Fetch, or even the Finder. > CCLD libosxfuse.la > make [1]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'. > warning: no debug symbols in executable (-arch ppc7400) > /Developer/usr/bin/strip: string table not at the end of the file (can't be > processed) in file: > /opt/local/var/macports/build/osxfuse-3acbfd85/work/Library/Source/lib/.libs/libosxfuse.2.dylib.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/libosxfuse.2.dylib > Error: Aborted: > SIGTERM received. > QEMU-Power-Mac-G4-AGP-granhics-2.~ lars$ >> Am 15.12.2025 um 20:50 schrieb Saj Goonatilleke: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52430 ? > > Do you mean this is to complicated? The ticket you linked shows another > problem on x86 Leopard. I’m on PowerPC, should I file a new ticket? The ticket shows the identical error to yours ("string table not at end of the file") and users on PowerPC commented that they were also affected, so don't file a new ticket. Ken's suggestion in ticket comment 8 to use the newer strip program from MacPorts is a good one. MacPorts is run by volunteers who work on what they're interested in, and interest in older systems is much less than for newer systems. You may find problems that haven't been reported, or that have been reported but haven't been fixed. If you can find ways to fix them, you can be such a volunteer and submit fixes to us by pull request (ideally) or by attaching a patch to a ticket.
