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First post, by emendelson

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Has anyone made a static-linked build of the current SVN code that runs under OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard? I can can build my patched version of current SVN and make builds that run under 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion, but I've never been able to make builds that run under 10.4 or 10.5 and that work on PowerPC and Intel platforms. Standard DOSBox 0.74 is available for 10.4 onward and in a "universal build" - I'm hoping someone has an equivalent universal 10.4+ build for SVN.

Here's why I'm asking. I've put together an application that uses my patched version of SVN for running WordPerfect for DOS under OS X. On systems that run OS X 10.4 or 10.5, my application falls back to running standard 0.74 instead. It doesn't have all the fancy bells and whistles of my patched version (bells and whistles provided by many helpful members of this forum, build advice provided by the exceptionally patient help of Dominus), but the 0.74 version gets the job done and lets me offer this application to a wide range of users.

The latest SVN code includes a massively improved RESCAN command (thanks to Qbix for this!), and I want to use that improved version in various batch files and WordPerfect macros used by my system. But I can't rewrite the batch files and macros to use the new, improved RESCAN, because the improved RESCAN isn't available in the 0.74 version that I use under 10.4 and 10.5.

So I'm hoping that some generous person has an OS X build of the latest SVN which I could use as the "fallback" program for 10.4 and 10.5 in my application. I realize that there isn't a huge demand out there for this kind of thing, and I'm only asking in the hope that someone has produced such a build already and is willing to share it.

Thanks for any help.

Reply 1 of 9, by Dominus

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He he, take a look at the svn snapshots build thread 😉
I've started doing that just recently (after our last thread discussing the osx compile stuff) and a link to my dropbox binary is there.

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 2 of 9, by emendelson

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I was hoping you'd say that!! That's great news. I'm downloading while writing this. Will thank you again after trying it out in my application. Thank you!

EDIT: I hope it's OK to add the link to Dominus's OS X SVN build in this thread. It can be found here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7737184/Dosbox/Dosbox-Snapshot.dmg

Very glad to have this!

Reply 3 of 9, by emendelson

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Works perfectly under 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 (Intel). Will try it out on 10.5 (PPC) as soon as possible. Thank you again!

Reply 5 of 9, by emendelson

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Ah! I should have asked this earlier! Thank you again for making these builds.

Reply 7 of 9, by emendelson

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Just confirming what you already knew: your SVN build runs perfectly on PowerPC running 10.5 (didn't test 10.4). What I discovered was that the AppleScript I use to launch DOSBox won't run on PowerPC machines, probably because it was compiled under Lion on Intel. It seems I need to compile the AppleScript under Snow Leopard or earlier to get it to work in 10.5 on PowerPC. At least, that's what it looks like now.

Reply 8 of 9, by Dominus

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Of course, an Apple Script app compiled on Lion won't run on PPC. Apple got rid of all PowerPC stuff in lock stock Lion. Compiling for PPC is a bit complicated already but can be done via old Xcode stuff but the apple script stuff will probably never have a workaround on Lion.
Thanks for confirming that the snapshot works on 10.5 PPC

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 9 of 9, by emendelson

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That's one reason I keep a Snow Leopard installation going on another machine. Thanks for the confirmation!