[phobos] OS X lib32?

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Sat Mar 26 17:35:45 PDT 2011



On 3/26/2011 1:26 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> A little while ago, there was a discussion about where to put the 32-bit phobos library in the DMD archive. It was finally decided that the 32-bit version would  go to a lib32 directory, and the 64-bit one in a lib64 directory.
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> That's all fine for Linux, but I brought to the discussion that on OS X the standard way is to create a universal binary which includes both architectures in one file. That's how libraries are packaged on OS X. But I was told, that this didn't concern OS X (yet) as the 64-bit port was (for now) Linux-only. Valid point.
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> But now, I see that in the archive the OS X library has been moved to a lib32 directory. Was this intentional or is it an oversight? Is the plan to do things as they're done on Linux and not have a universal multi-architecture binary?
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> Currently D for Xcode is broken by this change and I'm looking at the best way to fix it. In the sort term I might just change the path to point to the lib32 directory instead of simply "lib". But the current approach which is to put a symbolic link in /usr/local/lib pointing to libphobos2.a won't work anymore if the binary for the two architectures are kept in separate files...
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I don't know what the right answer is.


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