Oh, I see. I'm kind of new to Mac's and wasn't aware of Rosetta. I guess Rosetta is managing to run PowerPC library on X86 machine. That's pretty neat.
Thank you for for reply! -- Jin On Tuesday 27 May 2008 09:45, Jesse Pelton wrote: > A Google search for "xerces rosetta" seems to indicate that Rosetta > handles programs that include Xerces-C just fine. I have to believe > you'd get better performance if you distributed universal binaries, > though. Presumably this would require you to use Apple's tool chain. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Difference between Mac OS X x86 binary and PowerPC binary? > > Hello all, > I'm trying to distribute my application to Mac OS X network that has X86 > machines and PowerPC machines. > I've tried running the executable compiled for Power PC with Power PC > xerces > library on X86 machines, and they ran fine. > So I'm just wondering if I could continue using this or if I need to > compile > with X86 machine using X86 xerces library. > The reason behind this question is that x86 machines do not have gcc > installed, and I do not have admin privilege to the machines; I want to > minimize the number of requests to my systems administrator. > > Thank you in advance! > > -- > Jin
