Alieniloquent

Apple has had Intel machines for about a year. When they came out with the new architecture, they came up with the idea of a universal binary. It is a binary that will run natively on either the PPC or Intel architectures. None of the apps I work on have been compiled as universal binaries until today.

I just got my iMac yesterday, and it’s beautiful. The most interesting thing about it, though, is that it is an Intel machine. So naturally, when I got my projects all set up on it, I finally had to bite the bullet and make things work cross-platform.

That meant I had to recompile some frameworks to be universal binaries themselves. I also had to twiddle some build options. It was all well documented, and easy enough. But then I ran into a weird error that I couldn’t figure out:

/usr/bin/ld: warning suggest use of -bind_at_load, as lazy binding may result in errors or different symbols being used

symbol _atan2f used from dynamic library

/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSystem.dylib(floating.o) not from earlier dynamic library /usr/lib/libmx.A.dylib(single module)

After much searching, I finally found an article, and it explained what I needed to do. All I had to do was add -lSystem to my linking flags.

Now all I have to do is fix my one byte-order issue, and the program is all better.