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diff --git a/doc/src/developing-on-mac.qdoc b/doc/src/developing-on-mac.qdoc index 60c928d..849e79a 100644 --- a/doc/src/developing-on-mac.qdoc +++ b/doc/src/developing-on-mac.qdoc @@ -60,17 +60,15 @@ \section1 What Versions of Mac OS X are Supported? - As of Qt 4.5, Qt supports Mac OS X versions 10.3 (for \bold{deployment - only}, not for development), 10.4 and 10.5. It is usually in the best - interest of the developer and user to be running the latest updates to any - version. We test internally against Mac OS X 10.3.9 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 as - well as the updated release of Mac OS X 10.5. - + As of Qt 4.6, Qt supports Mac OS X versions 10.4 and up. It is usually in + the best interest of the developer and user to be running the latest + updates to any version. We test internally against Mac OS X 10.4.11 as well + as the updated release of Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6. \section2 Carbon or Cocoa? Historically, Qt has used the Carbon toolkit, which supports 32-bit - applications on Mac OS X 10.3 and up. Qt 4.5 adds support for the Cocoa + applications on Mac OS X 10.4 and up. Qt 4.5 and up has support for the Cocoa toolkit, which requires 10.5 and provides 64-bit support. This detail is typically not important to Qt application developers. Qt is @@ -79,17 +77,21 @@ version will be discontinued. This is something to keep in mind when you consider writing code directly against native APIs. - The current binary for Qt is built for Carbon. If you want to choose which - framework Qt will use, you must build from scratch. Carbon or Cocoa is - chosen when configuring the package for building. The configure process - selects Carbon by default, to specify Cocoa use the \c{-cocoa} flag. - configure for a 64-bit architecture using one of the \c{-arch} flags (see - \l{universal binaries}{Universal Binaries}). - - Currently, Apple's GCC 4.0.1 is used by default. When building on 10.5, - Apple's GCC 4.2 is also available and selectable with the configure flag: - \c{-platform macx-g++42}. GCC 3.x will \e not work. Experimental LLVM-GCC - support is available by passing in the \c{-platform macx-llvm} flag. + The current binary for Qt is built in two flavors, 32-bit Carbon and full + universal Cocoa (32-bit and 64-bit). If you want a different setup for + Qt will use, you must build from scratch. Carbon or Cocoa is chosen when + configuring the package for building. The configure process selects Carbon + by default, to specify Cocoa use the \c{-cocoa} flag. configure for a + 64-bit architecture using one of the \c{-arch} flags (see \l{universal + binaries}{Universal Binaries}). + + Currently, Apple's default GCC compiler is used by default (GCC 4.0.1 on + 10.4 and 10.5, GCC 4.2 on 10.6). You can specify alternate compilers + though. For example, on Mac OS X 10.5, Apple's GCC 4.2 is also available + and selectable with the configure flag: \c{-platform macx-g++42}. LLVM-GCC + support is available by passing in the \c{-platform macx-llvm} flag. GCC + 3.x will \e not work. Though they may work, We do not support custom-built + GCC's. The following table summarizes the different versions of Mac OS X and what capabilities are used by Qt. @@ -103,13 +105,6 @@ \o CPU Architecture Supported \o Development Platform \row - \o 10.3 - \o Panther - \o Carbon - \o 32 - \o PPC - \o No - \row \o 10.4 \o Tiger \o Carbon @@ -130,6 +125,20 @@ \o 32/64 \o PPC/Intel \o Yes + \row + \o 10.6 + \o Snow Leopard + \o Carbon + \o 32 + \o PPC/Intel + \o Yes + \row + \o 10.6 + \o Snow Leopard + \o Cocoa + \o 32/64 + \o PPC/Intel + \o Yes \endtable \section2 Which One Should I Use? @@ -144,15 +153,21 @@ Carbon universal application with the appropriate checks in your code to choose the right path based on where you are running the application. + For Mac OS X 10.6, Apple has started recommending developers to build their + applications 64-bit. The main reason is that there is a small speed + increase due to the extra registers on Intel CPU's, all their machine + offerings have been 64-bit since 2007, and there is a cost for reading all + the 32-bit libraries into memory if everything else is 64-bit. If you want + to follow this advice, there is only one choice, 64-bit Cocoa. + \target universal binaries \section1 Universal Binaries In 2006, Apple begin transitioning from PowerPC (PPC) to Intel (x86) systems. Both architectures are supported by Qt. The release of Mac OS X 10.5 in October 2007 added the possibility of writing and deploying 64-bit - GUI applications. Qt 4.5 supports both the 32-bit (PPC and x86) and 64-bit - (PPC64 and x86-64) versions of PowerPC and Intel-based systems are - supported. + GUI applications. Qt 4.5 and up supports both the 32-bit (PPC and x86) and + 64-bit (PPC64 and x86-64) versions of PowerPC and Intel-based systems. Universal binaries are used to bundle binaries for more than one architecture into a single package, simplifying deployment and @@ -221,7 +236,7 @@ In general, Qt supports building on one Mac OS X version and deploying on all others, both forward and backwards. You can build on 10.4 Tiger and run - the same binary on 10.3 and 10.5. + the same binary on 10.5 and up. Some restrictions apply: |