Re: [Gimp-developer] Single build for various OSX versions (Was: [Gimp-user] Open Gimp)

[Simone Karin Lehmann <simone lisanet de>]

Am 08.12.2013 um 20:18 schrieb scl <scl gplus gmail com>:

> On 8.12.2013 at 8:14 PM Partha Bagchi wrote in Gimp-user:
> > You can also download my Mac build which will work on Snow Leopard or
> > later. You can download it from www.partha.com
>
> Hi Partha,
>
> I hereby confirm that your build is fine on OS X 10.6.
> How did you manage to build GIMP in a manner that it works for
> 10.6 _and later_?

if you compile it on a SnowLeopad machine, it will run up to 10.9

The only reason, why I make separate builds on my site, is that my development system runs Mavericks. So I do 
a second build on an old (and slow) MacBook running SnowLeopard.

> As far as I know the OS X versions are often incompatible to
> each other what makes it hard to get a build for various OS X versions.

AFAICS, there are no incompatibilities as long as you compile and install all needed libraries inside the 
application bundle. 

Simone