Need advice on MacOS standalones and externals

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Marian Petrides, MD
> 
> Universal creates an app that will run on both PowerPC Macs 
> and on Intel Macs. As a consequence, such an app is larger 
> than an Intel-only app. That's the only downside I can see to 
> selecting Universal. OTOH, If PowerPC is truly irrelevant to 
> your users (as you stated in your query), why bloat your app?

Thanks. Since the latest Xcode doesn't seem to include the PPC compiler,
I'm sticking to Intel.

But I'm still not sure if the bit width matters. On my MacOS 10.8 system,
which I believe is a 64-bit OS, compiling my external as 32-bit works
fine, but is that always the case?

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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