| Release Notes | |
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| This version of the library has been tested under OSX 10.3.9 PPC and OSX 10.4.8 Intel. | |
| While the makefiles will make a .dylib and a .a, it is recommended to simply staticly link with the .a file. | |
| FreeImage is now built as a Universal Binary and targets the 10.3.9 SDK for PPC and the 10.4u SDK for i386. | |
| This means that you must have both of these SDKs installed and that you must be running on OSX 10.4+ to build FreeImage. | |
| The library will run on 10.3 PPC, but probably not 10.2 or below anymore. wchar.h did not exist on 10.2. | |
| FreeImage is now built with gcc 4.0 and will thus only run on 10.3.9 or above (some libraries may not exist on 10.3.8 and below). | |
| The FreeImage makefile makes use of the gcc "-fvisibility=hidden" in order to avoid incompatibilities between | |
| internal third party libraries and the OS libraries. This feature is available with gcc 4 or greater. | |
| Ryan Rubley | |
| Building the Library | |
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| Makefile detects the environment by calling 'uname'. Assuming this reports 'Darwin' on your system, Makefile will automatically | |
| defer commands to Makefile.osx. If this doesn't work, type 'make -f Makefile.osx' in place of just 'make' | |
| The build process is as simple as this: | |
| 1) Enter the FreeImage directory | |
| 2) Build the distribution: | |
| make | |
| 3) The libraries and header will be in the Dist directory when the build is finished | |
| To install FreeImage in the /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include directories (not recommended): | |
| make install | |
| To clean all files produced during the build process: | |
| make clean | |
| Additional notes | |
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| Building on Mac OS X Leopard : | |
| Install the xcode dev tools from the Leopard disk. | |
| When installing the dev tools make sure to have installed 10.3.9 SDK (it's not selected by default). | |