[Qgis-developer] Re: INSTALL.t2t edits

[William Kyngesburye]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:06 PM, John C. Tull wrote:

> Strangely, I just built qgis as an i386 binary, but the installed qt, pyqt and sip are all x86_64. I get an error about sip.so being the wrong architecture (as expected). It seems that pyqt being 64-bit allows things to get picked up with cmake, despite the architecture not matching the CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=i386 setting.
> 
> This might shed some light on things. It seems very peculiar that I can have an i386 qgis binary running inside 64-bit qt:
> 
> file /Applications/qgis1.4.0.app/Contents/MacOS/qgis 
> /Applications/qgis1.4.0.app/Contents/MacOS/qgis: Mach-O executable i386
> 
> This build is a little bit like Frankenstein, and not what I intended to do. I forgot to change my CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to x86_64. Maybe this sheds some light on the problem, although it seems to obfuscate things in my mind.

The Qt Cocoa binaries are BOTH 32 and 64bit.  So it is possible to have i386 Qgis.

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