How do you handle caring about PPC?

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Apr 8 21:03:29 EDT 2013


Richmond-

Monday, April 8, 2013, 11:47:59 AM, you wrote:

> that means porting stacks back to version 2.0.1 and saving them as
> Classic standalones. The

As Stephen pointed out, there are *no* modern compilers that support
the PPC architecture. This means that recent versions of the LC engine
can *not* be compiled for the PPC. This became an issue a decade ago,
and judicious patching of compilers that were current at the time
enabled RunRev to continue supporting the PPC. But with the demise of
Metrowerks, the last extant compiler that could compile the old code
went on the scrapheap. I still have the last Metrowerks C compiler
stashed away somewhere, so once the engine becomes open source I'd be
glad to ship it to you and you can take on the task of trying to
back-port the code so that it compiles.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net





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