How can I build Qt for OS X 10.5 on 10.6

Question

I'm trying to build a static, universal Qt from source on Mac OS X 10.6 using the following command:

sh configure -static -opensource -universal

The problem, I have been told, is that PPC is not supported on 10.6 so I am getting many errors and the build eventually fails.

So I need to build for a different target version of OS X - 10.4 or 10.5. How can I do that? Do I need to add some parameters to my configure line and, if so, which ones?

Answer 1

Try using the -sdk option to configure. eg

./configure -sdk /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -opensource -universal

...if you want to make binaries targeting OSX 10.5 and later.

Statically linking is a separate issue again. I would not recommend it, especially since OSX already supports app bundles anyway, which I believe gives most of the same benefits to the end-user as static linking.