On Apr 5, 2010, at 14:47, Ctalk Project wrote:

> Now that you mention it, though, I have several other questions, even though 
> maybe a bit off topic here - I seem to recall that Apple has (or had) a site 
> for developers to test-compile for different OS X versions and architectures. 
>  Has anybody managed to find the site and/or tried builds there?

Never heard of it.

> Also, just how patched is the Xcode compiler?

Apple's patches are freely available, I believe. See http://opensource.apple.com

> We do test on a lot of GCC versions around here - has anyone tried this 
> universal binary code generation from a generic GCC release?

Apple's patches allow gcc to accept multiple simultaneous arch flags, e.g. "gcc 
-arch i386 -arch ix86_64" to generate both at the same time. Standard gcc does 
not have this ability; instead, you have to "gcc -arch i386", then "gcc -arch 
x86_64", then "lipo" manually. For ports that require a non-Apple gcc compiler, 
universal builds are probably possible using the muniversal portgroup, which 
does this build-and-lipo method.


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