OS X Compile question

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Robby(Posted 2012) [#1]
Hi guys! Just had a quick question. I'm using Blitzmax with OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

I'm a little afraid to update to Snow Leopard and Lion (although Mobile Me is gonna force it soon!) because I heard of some troubles with the Xcode version.

So if I compile a program under 10.5.8 Leopard, will the compiled program run on Snow and Lion? Or similarly, if I did upgrade to Lion and the proper Xcode, would it be backward compatible and run on regular Leopard and Snow?

One other quick one - out of curiosity: If Blitz needs Xcode to work with on the Mac, what does the Windows version use? Thanks, -Rob


xlsior(Posted 2012) [#2]
One other quick one - out of curiosity: If Blitz needs Xcode to work with on the Mac, what does the Windows version use? Thanks, -Rob


FASM and MinGW.

Blitzmax uses FASM (which is included) to compile the executables, and MinGW to compile any C-code -- which means that in order to rebuild the modules you need to have MinGW installed.

If you only use the core blitzmax language and don't dink around with any modules, you can get by without any 3rd party downloads.