PureBasic Forums - English

Dear board,

as I have a MacBook from my office, and a MacBook Pro for professional
(and private) use, I was able to test PureBasic with Snow Leopard.

As of know, I cannot recommend using Snow Leopard for coding with PureBasic.
So far, I have installed PureBasic 4.31/x86 with xCode for Leopard on the
MacBook. With this, I am able to produce code which runs great on Leopard.

My private MacBook Pro runs PB 4.31/x86 with xCode for Snow Leopard.
Also, this works great without any problems so far (testing for one week now)

Not possible at the moment is to run Leopard-PB-Applications on Snow Leopard
and vice versa. I am lucky because of the second MacBook, but sad because
I can't code on one machine only I need the two of them.

Workaround-Tip: install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your internal harddrive
(works great, this OS is definetely a recommandation!!!) Then install Mac OS X
Leopard on an external harddrive or USB-Stick with at least 16gb FREE. There
you install xCode for Leopard and put everything on what you need for
PureBasicing. You may exchange Data between Leopard and Snow Leopard,
as you are able to access the directories directly... Sadly you have to reboot
when testing and compiling for the other OS.

Hope this will be fixed soon with PureBasic and/or xCode.

p.s. I didn't try to install the older xCode for Leopard atm due to lack of time.

I haven' tried this myself as I only have one MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 installed. But it sounds weird.
Can anyone else confirm this?

running macbook 2.2ghz intel, snow leopard and xcode 3.2 ..... latest beta 4.40 beta 2 doesnt seem to want to run. Compile/Run is greyed out and compiler wont run. Guess just early teething troubles with beta as release 4.31 continues to run ok.

Hmmm,

is this a 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue? I did not yet have a chance to get my hands on a Mac with Snow-Leopard, but my MacBook Pro with Leopard claims to be a 32-bit machine ("uname -a" yields something with "i386" only)

This sounds strange as crash reports already mention 64-bit addresses - but it's what "uname" gives as a result...

Hello,
I am experiencing problems with some commands using PureBasic 4.40 on I-Mac OSX Snow Leopard. In particular, I can not using an "OpenConsole" command which works fine on my PC XT with PureBasic 4.40. Are you in a position (hardware and software) to verify my finding? I have a comment under "StPaul" from Jan31 about this (also under Mac OS section).
Thanking you in advance for your kind consideration of my question,
StPaul

OpenConsole() does nothing on OSX/Linux as there is no special console format. Just ensure you call it (for crossplateform reason) and you set the executable type as "Console" in the compiler options and it should be fine.

Go here for a workaround using Parallels 5 and Leopard Server...

See here: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 19&t=41491