20080519 Lua universal binary

Add this post, this one and this comment and you get a Lua universal build for your mac in Leopard – which works for Tiger too! Assuming you uncompressed the source code onto a folder called lua… In lua/Makefile, add a new target, macosx_ub, to the PLATS definition. It should look like this: # Convenience [...]

20080421 Building a universal library in Mac OS X

If you need to use a library in a universal binary you’ll need to use a universal library too. Let’s use FMOD as an example; libfmod.a is the PPC compiled version, libfmodx86.a is the intel version. For combining both into a universal library: lipo -create libfmodx86.a libfmod.a -output libfmod-universal.a ranlib libfmod-universal.a In the case of [...]

20080226 Xcode3 oddities

It’s been a couple of interesting days already, got ideas for something fun and I’m using XCode quite furiously. Everything began since I got SDL working with OpenGl (what derived into a Linux version of the famously rotating triangle with pink background), then a couple of weeks later I made some additions which I’m further [...]

20080122 Truly irritating: “Your Wireless network has been compromised”

Believe it or not, here’s yet another stupid feature of Leopard! Whenever it decides it’s a good moment to stop your workflow, a little window will pop up and tell you that because your wireless network has been compromised, it will be disabled for a minute. What it doesn’t tell is that it won’t connect [...]

20080107 ZigVersion crashing all the time?

… just delete/rename ~/Library/Application Support/ZigVersion/UrlList.plist I had been experiencing continuous crashes with ZigVersion for probably a month or so, so at the end I just managed my svn stuff from the command line. It is a bit tedious sometimes so I thought it would be nice to find a fix! The side effect of this [...]