Unity on OSX x86?

Hi,

has anyone tried out if Unity is running on the x86-Dev-Version of Tiger 10.4.1?


Greetings,

taumel

 

I can't speak for OTEE guys but I don't think so at this point unless they've built it all in the latest XCode version and recompiled the whole thing as a universal binary.

 

Not yet... an acquaintance told us that Rosetta fails on in too. But x86 is not something that worries us much and I think we'll be happily supporting it long before they enter the market.

I hope you agree that right now it's not really an issue.


d.

 

Hi David,

no i just was curious if the betas already support fat/universal binaries. I dunno how much expense is behind for compiling these applications. If it's mainly setting the compiler-options plus a few tweaks here and there or if it's more work to be done due to little/big endian and so on.


Greetings,

taumel

 

Since we have unity running on PC, endian is (pretty much) worked out.

The _real_ effort comes from moving Unity from CodeWarrior on to gcc 4.0

Gcc 4.0 appears to be FSF's way of getting revenge on anybody who ever thought of writing non-standards compliant code. Never before have I seen a compiler being such a bitch about stuff that works everywhere else (including all other gcc's)

Example: I have an internal project that builds all ShaderLab code as a small standalone app - getting that from gcc 3.3 to 4.0 took 2 days. And ShaderLab does NOT do anything even remotely complex (unlike, say the Unity serialization system).

 

Ok i understand but at least things should speed up if you get a feeling about what the compiler is bitching about. I remember such things when moving code from solaris to linux...


Greetings,

taumel