OT: Apple 64-bit changes

Randolph M. Fritz rmfritz3 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 20:55:27 UTC 2018


I found Joshua Root's messages in the spam trap, so now I understand a bit
more.

When you say "The difference is that the 10.14 SDK no longer allows
compiling for 32-bit" does that mean that particular capabilities have been
removed from the compiler, the libraries, or Xcode?
-- 
Randolph M. Fritz


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:29 PM Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, everyone, for the discussion. I'll have to look into how it
> applies specifically to our app.
> --
> Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:54 PM Mark Anderson <emer at emer.net> wrote:
>
>> Oh yeah, I mean CodeWeavers / WineHQ - Apple doesn't care at all. I've
>> been to enough WWDCs to know that. Good to know they are on it.
>>
>> —Mark
>> _______________________
>> Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:13 AM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:57, Mark Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>> > When I run a 32 bit command line app, I get the popup warning that
>>> this “Isn’t optimized for my Mac”.
>>>
>>> You will get that popup when you run *any* 32-bit app.
>>>
>>> > It’s kind of annoying that they’re removing the possibility when
>>> things like wine really need a 32bit space since Windows is no where near
>>> as far along on 32->64 bit.
>>>
>>> Apple appears not to care.
>>>
>>> > I hope they’re planning to spin up hypervisor.framrwork or something
>>> to fix that.
>>>
>>> It depends who you mean by "they". If you mean Apple, then no; they are
>>> clearly moving the Mac along a path of removing 32-bit support. On the
>>> other hand, CodeWeavers, one of the developers of Wine, has been working on
>>> a way to continue to run 32-bit Windows apps in Wine on macOS even after
>>> Apple removes the ability to run 32-bit programs. I do not know the
>>> specifics of how they plan to accomplish this.
>>>
>>>
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