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diff --git a/macosx/README b/macosx/README index 561c468..6c2c81a 100644 --- a/macosx/README +++ b/macosx/README @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Tcl Mac OS X README ----------------- -RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.6 2005/11/27 02:33:49 das Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.7 2006/07/20 06:18:37 das Exp $ This is the README file for the Mac OS X/Darwin version of Tcl. @@ -36,9 +36,12 @@ Mac OS X specific bugs should usually be assigned to 'das' or 'wolfsuit'. - At a minimum, Mac OS X 10.1 is required to run Tcl, but OS X 10.3 or higher is recommended (certain [file] operations behave incorrectly on earlier releases). -- Tcl built on Mac OS X 10.x will not run on 10.y for y < x, on the other hand -Tcl built on 10.y will run on 10.x for y < x (but without any of the fixes and -optimizations that would be available in a binary built on 10.x). +- Unless weak-linking is used, Tcl built on Mac OS X 10.x will not run on 10.y +with y < x; on the other hand Tcl built on 10.y will always run on 10.x with +y <= x (but without any of the fixes and optimizations that would be available +in a binary built on 10.x). +Weak-linking is available on OS X 10.2 or later, it additionally allows Tcl +built on 10.x to run on any 10.y with x > y >= z (for a chosen z >= 2). - Tcl extensions can be installed in any of: $HOME/Library/Tcl /Library/Tcl /Network/Library/Tcl /System/Library/Tcl @@ -79,10 +82,9 @@ http://connect.apple.com (after you register for free ADC membership). (see below for details), but can also be built with the standard unix configure and make buildsystem in tcl/unix as on any other unix platform (indeed, the GNUmakefile is just a wrapper around the unix buildsystem). -The Mac OS X specifc configure flags are --enable-framework and +The Mac OS X specific configure flags are --enable-framework and --disable-corefoundation (which disables CF and notably reverts to the standard -select based notifier, you will only need this if your require use of naked fork -(i.e. not followed by execve) in an unthreaded core). +select based notifier). - It is also possible to build with Apple's IDE via the projects in tcl/macosx, take care to only use the project matching your DevTools and OS version: @@ -116,12 +118,22 @@ Notes about the native targets of the Xcode projects: export CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 \ -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.4" This requires Mac OS X 10.4 and Xcode 2.2 (_not_ Xcode 2.1) and will work on any -of the architectures (on i386 DTKs, the -isysroot is not required). Note that it -is not possible to configure correctly if the current architecture is not +of the architectures (on intel Macs, the -isysroot is not required). Note that +it is not possible to configure correctly if the current architecture is not present in CFLAGS (i.e. -arch `arch` must always be there). Universal builds of Tcl TEA extensions are also possible with CFLAGS set as above, they will be [load]able by universal as well as thin binaries of Tcl. +- To enable weak-linking, set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable +to the minimal OS version (>= 10.2) the binaries should be able to run on, e.g: + export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.2 +This requires Mac OS X 10.2 and gcc 3.1; if you have gcc 4 or later you can set +CFLAGS instead: + export CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.2" +The Tcl.xcodeproj is setup to produce binaires that can run on 10.2 or later, +except for the 'ReleaseUniversal'configuration, where they require 10.4. +Support for weak-linking was added to the code for 8.4.14/8.5a5. + Detailed Instructions for building with macosx/GNUmakefile ---------------------------------------------------------- @@ -152,8 +164,8 @@ instead by passing an INSTALL_ROOT argument to make: - The default Makefile targets will build _both_ debug and optimized versions of the Tcl framework with the standard convention of naming the debug library Tcl.framework/Tcl_debug. -This allows you to dynamically link to the debug libraries at runtime by setting - setenv DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIX _debug +This allows switching to the debug libraries at runtime by setting + export DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIX=_debug (c.f. man dyld for more details) If you only want to build and install the debug or optimized build, use the |