Macintosh bloat

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Aug 19 15:26:14 EDT 2018


I'm talking about LC 8.1.10 which gives me the choice of building a 
32-bit Mac app or a 64-bit app ('experimental'):
currently, at least, I am ONLY building a 32-bit build for Mac.

Richmond.

On 19/8/2018 8:33 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> If I remember right, LC now always builds for 64 bit. If you also want 
> to support 32 bit, it adds that to the build, which approximately 
> doubles the size.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On August 19, 2018 5:07:57 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> 32-bit Mac.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>> On 19/8/2018 12:15 pm, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Hi Richmond,
>>>
>>> In the standalone settings, are you building for both 32-bit and 
>>> 64-bit?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 1:48 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I ran off a series of standalones to day: Mac, Win, Linux 32 and 
>>>> Linux 64 and they ended up as these sizes, respectively:
>>>>
>>>> 146.6 MB, 72.4 MB, 75.6 MB, 75.9 MB
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me why the Macintosh standalone is about twice the 
>>>> size of all the others
>>>> [leaving aside remarks about the late Steve Jobs' ego, the fact 
>>>> that Macintosh computers are hugely expensive and so on]?
>>>>
>>>> Richmond.
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