On 4/23/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen Chu wrote: > On 4/23/12 4:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 23/04/12 23:19, Paul Miller wrote: >>> On 4/23/2012 1:19 PM, Stephen Chu wrote: >>>> Will 32-bit build be supported in Qt 5? Or we Mac guys will all have to >>>> force our users to 64-bit land? >>> >>> I don't know how far back you need to support, but we dropped support >>> for 32 bit Mac last year. Pretty much every Mac built in the last 5 >>> years has bee on a 64 bit architecture, and Leopard up has been fully 64 >>> bit. We make imaging products and nobody has ever complained about lack >>> of 32 bit. Pretty much everyone in the industry is running Snow Leopard >>> or Lion these days. >> >> Are there 32bit-only 10.5 systems? Can it even be installed on a Mac >> that lacks a 64bit CPU? >> >> It's a bit difficult to find accurate information. I ask because Qt >> supports down to OS X 10.5. 10.4 is not supported (at least not with >> Cocoa, and Carbon was deprecated by Qt I think). If 10.5 can't be >> installed on 32bit Macs, then it makes sense to build for 64bit. >> >> The same goes for the PowerPC 10.5 Macs though. Can 10.5 be installed >> on 32bit-only PPCs? > > I am not worried about PPC at all. But 10.5 can be installed on 32-bit > PPC. And both 10.5 and 10.6 can be installed on 32-bit only Intel Macs.
In the wise words of the great sage Mr. T - "I pity the fool still running a 32-bit Mac!". _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
