Universal (Mac OS X) build for Scummvm completed

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Universal (Mac OS X) build for Scummvm completed

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Hi,

I've made a proper Universal build of ScummVM; it's compiled identically to the mainline packages (i.e. Vorbis, MPEG2, FLAC, etc.) and is native on both platforms.

It's tested and working fine as far as I can tell, and the only changes I made were for endianness (due to assumptions about PPC) and disabling NASM in both FLAC and ScummVM.

Despite the disabled ASM stuff, it is pretty darn fast on my MacBook :D

I'm wondering what I should do with it now; would the maintainers like to host it or would you just want the patches?
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Re: Universal (Mac OS X) build for Scummvm completed

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aubin wrote:would the maintainers like to host it or would you just want the patches?
Both :D


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I've put together patch against the SVN source tree.

I've also patched "configure" so it does a proper altivec test. I've tried it on a MacBook as well as my old Powerbook G4 (which has Altivec) and the patches seem to be cross-architecture properly.

The patch is here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=418822

I'm putting up my Universal Binary temporarily, but I'm hoping upstream will take it over:
http://mac.punknews.org/downloads/Scumm ... versal.dmg
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Post by Vinterstum »

Thanks :). I modified this some and committed it.

I'm putting up an x86 build in a bit, and hopefully an Universal Binary soonish (Need to set up a proper build environment on my Mac Mini).

Edit: x86 build is up, check the Downloads page.
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You can use Lipo to make your universal binary before you have your build environment. You probably know this, but just in case:

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lipo -create scummvm_intel scummvm_ppc -output scummvm
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aubin wrote:You can use Lipo to make your universal binary before you have your build environment. You probably know this, but just in case:

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lipo -create scummvm_intel scummvm_ppc -output scummvm
Yeah, I know :). Didn't mean a crosscompiling build environment, just a native one, so I can get that PPC binary in the first place :). My Mac Mini is currently a bit messed up.
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Post by Vinterstum »

Oops. The build yesterday was linked against a somewhat bugged version of zlib looks like, so it wasn't able to load scumm savegames. If you downloaded this yesterday, you might want to redownload :).
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Post by rented mule »

Oh dear god...AGI-support!!! Can someone make a new UB snapshot? :)
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When is the final version ready?

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I see that the universal binary version is still only listed in the "Subversion" section on the download page.

When will there be a "official" release of the universal binary version? I just got myself an Intel based iMac :-)

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Post by fingolfin »

Quite simple, there will be an "official" release once there is a new release, i.e. once 0.9.0 gets released.
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Post by soren_ladegaard »

fingolfin wrote:Quite simple, there will be an "official" release once there is a new release, i.e. once 0.9.0 gets released.
...and when will that be? ;-)
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As soon as it is ready, of course.
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rented mule wrote:Oh dear god...AGI-support!!! Can someone make a new UB snapshot? :)
Done! Link is in the SVN snapshot section, as usual.
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Vinterstum wrote:
rented mule wrote:Oh dear god...AGI-support!!! Can someone make a new UB snapshot? :)
Done! Link is in the SVN snapshot section, as usual.
Thankee, Vintersum.
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Post by Grummz »

I just tried it and it works great on my Macbook Pro 17.

Except: I can't get music for Curse of Monkey Island. I have the original CD in the drive, but it doesn't even spin up. The instructions talk about a command line interface to map a drive letter, but macs don't have drive letters.

Any clue?
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