[vtkusers] Universal Binary of vtk on Mac OS X... initial investigations...

[Sean McBride]

On 2006-02-16 12:43, David Cole said:

>>Have others in the past not wanted to cross compile vtk?  Is this the first
>>time it's come up?
>>
>It's probably not the first time it's come up... but I think the 
>Intel/PPC Mac universal binaries might be the first really good reason 
>even to attempt it. There's not much of a reason to attempt 
>cross-compiling when your code base compiles nearly everywhere. It's 
>just easier to compile on the target platform than it is to get 
>cross-compiling working.

Makes sense.

>Feel free to enter a bug/feature request

Well, I entered one a few months ago against cmake:
<http://www.vtk.org/Bug/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2492>

and there has been good discussion within.

Is entering one against vtk in order too?  Perhaps a bug to encourage
cleanup/deprecation of TRY_COMPILE usage?

>and convince all the other Mac 
>fans to vote for it.

Hear what David said everyone? :)

>(Then figure out how to do it right and attach that 
>info / patches to the bug tracker entry...)

That's the tricky part. :)

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