universal-binary – Tarik Billa

How can we restore ppc/ppc64 as well as full 10.4/10.5 SDK support to Xcode 4?

January 17, 2023 by Tarik

The quick answer is: Yes, we can! Before I get to the “how it is done” part, here are some notes about my patch/hack/fix. Right from the start the major goals have been: Keep all modifications to an absolute minimum. We want to keep the Xcode setups as original as possible. By all means, try … Read more

How do I determine the target architecture of static library (.a) on Mac OS X?

November 21, 2022 by Tarik

Another option is lipo; its output is brief and more readable than otool‘s. An example: % lipo -info /usr/lib/libiodbc.a Architectures in the fat file: /usr/lib/libiodbc.a are: x86_64 i386 ppc % lipo -info libnonfatarchive.a input file libnonfatarchive.a is not a fat file Non-fat file: libnonfatarchive.a is architecture: i386 %