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Post #4 by ChristTrekker
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateWed, 21 Nov 2012 - 20:17
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/tenfourfox-on-intel-os-x-10-4.26606/
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It would not be difficult to do: you'd have to undo the current JS compiler and point it to the built-in x86 one instead, change the AltiVec code to point to the built-in SSE2 equivalents, and make sure we haven't made any big-endian assumptions (usually we're dealing with code that makes little-endian assumptions). This is non-trivial, but the x86 code obviously is already in the code base; you just have to get everything pointing back to it, since I didn't really design the source for cross-compilation. Then you can use the 10.4-widget, graphics and font support, which should work with no changes.
I've often wondered what kind of issues these are. I would think that unless you're dealing with assembly code, most of these concerns are abstracted out. Just recompile for the right target arch and you should be good, right?

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