PPC version

[greyfrontier]

Hi Tsomi, thank you for all of your work keeping the PowerPC version updated.

I'm willing to try and step up and assist building - I don't exactly have too much experience, but I do indeed have working hardware.. PowerMac G5 Single and PowerMac G4 MDD (both run 10.5., but I assume we'll need Tiger 10.4.11 to do your building correct?

Otherwise, if you're still maintaining the port, I'll just try and offer testing then..

[Tsomi]

Hi Tsomi, thank you for all of your work keeping the PowerPC version updated.

I'm willing to try and step up and assist building - I don't exactly have too much experience, but I do indeed have working hardware.. PowerMac G5 Single and PowerMac G4 MDD (both run 10.5., but I assume we'll need Tiger 10.4.11 to do your building correct?

Otherwise, if you're still maintaining the port, I'll just try and offer testing then..

Hi!

Thanks for offering your help. I’ve found the time to do some builds again, and so a 2.8.0 release is indeed available for OSX PPC, on the regular download page.

So I don’t think we’ll need help for builds right now (and the OSX PPC build process is a bit funky) but testing the releases and the games on your PPC devices would be very appreciated! Please don’t hesitate reporting any issue on https://bugs.scummvm.org.

(Also: Tiger is indeed a current requirement for building the release, but that’s only because the updated compiler from Leopard MacPorts has no Tiger compatibility in its C++ lib. Otherwise, Leopard itself can build for Tiger with some special flags.)

[greyfrontier]

No worries, I appreciate all of the work you do! Thanks again I'll work on testing soon!

[Tsomi]

Thanks!

Since I see that OSX PPC users tend to look at this topic, here's a ScummVM 2.9.0git "daily build" for this platform.

https://github.com/dwatteau/scummvm/rel ... 240615.dmg

Warning: the download and the resulting app are quite huge, because I've added debugging information to this development release.

Among other things, this includes a compiler upgrade (from GCC 4.8.5 to GCC 7.5.0), the Sonivox/EAS library, and some external library updates. As for the daily builds, this was built with all engines, including the unstable ones.

If people want to report bugs or other things about the OSX PPC port, that's your time! Please try to replicate your cases on a regular PC too, so that we're sure that your issue is OSX PPC only, and not a general issue. In any case, reporting the problems on https://bugs.scummvm.org/ is always preferred. Thanks!

[Tsomi]

I've put up a new daily build, if OSX PPC users want to test what will be part of ScummVM 2.9.0:

scummvm-2.9.0pre1-macosx-ppc.dmg

Contrary to the final "release" builds, this one has the unstable engines turned on, FWIW.

Feedback is very welcome. Thanks!

(Some external libraries haven't been updated yet, and some newer ones haven't been added yet. I plan on doing that later on.)