Board:   [DeveloperNet] Mac Development
Subject: wxWidgets and universal b
From:    Mercyful Fate
Date:    Thu Feb 06, 2014 15:04

  Re: wxWidgets and universal binaries
  By: Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Fri Mar 05 2010 08:36:36

 Ni> Not quite.  Mac apps that are compiled only for PowerPC are the only ones
 Ni> that need to be run through emulation.  OS X for Intel systems has a piece
 Ni> of software called Rosetta, which runs PowerPC Mac apps on Intel Macs.
 Ni> The "universal binaries" don't need that because universal binaries
 Ni> include both the Intel and PowerPC-compiled versions, so they run natively
 Ni> on both Intel andPowerPC Macs.

Pretty interesting indeed. I've never owned a mac so i've never had first hand
access to play with either the PowerPC or Intel Platforms.  Although recently
i've gotten a vmware image togehter of OSX Lion which has been pretty
intersting toplay with.

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