On 8 September 2016 at 19:33, Ken Cunningham wrote: > Working on the optimal way to do this emulator + GUI program. > > The emulator itself is best built with i386, for the JIT. This requires > libSDL to be available in i386 (so presumably +universal). You can monkey > around with a no-JIT version, but you wouldn't want it, ultimately. > > The rather tiny little GUI (that just edits a simple config file with text > lines) is compatible with gtk1 or gtk2 has no reason to be any special > architecture (x86-64 would be just fine, if you have the gtk tree built that > way). > > I don't want to make people reinstall their whole gtk tree as universal for > no reason... on Snow Leopard (building from source) this takes half a day. > (OK, not quite -- but a long time). > > Is this a role for subports, with the emulator forced to i386, but the gui > left to be whatever?
In the case you describe I would indeed go for subports. If architecture of the GUI is unrelated to the architecture of the emulator, it would be an overkill to require building everything as universal. Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
