On 2019-05-24 22:31, Richmond via use-livecode wrote:
What I mean is that LiveCode produces a "Fat" standalone which suffers
from the following disadvantages:
1. It's fat, quite literally.
2. I wonder whether MacOS Somewhere_Obscure_In-California (10.15) will
not object to those
standalones because, as well as containing 64-bit code they also
contain 32-bit code.
You can choose to produce a slim standalone - the default in the S/B is
to produce a standalone with both 32-bit and 64-bit slices... You can
choose one, or other or both using the checkboxes at the top of the
macOS specific settings pane.
The default in 9.0.x and onwards is to *only* select the 64-bit option
for macOS for new stacks - however, if you created a standalone from a
stack in older versions it will likely have both options set.
All macOS hardware which we currently support is capable of running
64-bit apps... However, the reason why we must continue to provide fat
binaries, and offer the choice to build for 32-bit on macOS is that we
are aware of a number of users who have 32-bit externals which they have
yet to migrate (migration, unfortunately, is not necessarily a simple
recompile - due to the fact that macOS's 64-bit side does not support a
large number of the older, long deprecated, system APIs).
In terms of the 32-bit warning that many have been noticing on Mojave,
we found the culprit a month or so ago - the auto-updater sitting inside
the app bundle is still 32-bit. We had intended to switch it to 64-bit
for 9.5-dp-1 but ran out of time to do so.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
P.S. It would be *immensely* helpful for us at HQ if anyone who still
relies on 32-bit externals in apps they are still maintaining (i.e. by
continuing to build from the latest and greatest LiveCode versions)
could drop a line to supp...@livecode.com so we can keep track and use
that information to influence the decision of when to cut 32-bit from
the macOS binaries. [ The benefit from doing this is three-fold - it
halves the time taken to build the macOS binaries, halves our macOS test
matrix and reduces the size of the distribution by upward of 50-60Mb ].
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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