Creating programs for 10.5 using MacPorts for 10.6

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Sep 7 20:48:35 PDT 2009


On 2009-9-8 13:15, Paul Simonson wrote:
> Can I still write programs using XCode, link to libraries installed by MacPorts for 
> Snow Leopard (10.6), and have those programs run on Leopard (10.5)?

Probably not. Leaving aside the CPU architecture issue (which you may or
may not be able to get around using build_arch), MacPorts can't target a
different OS version: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19875>

- Josh


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