iPhone SDK on PowerPC Macs

[jbarr]

Thank you for the feedback!

I asked because I would like to try my hand at some iPhone/iPod Touch app development, but I have an exclusively Windows-based environment at home and work, so I would need to purchase some sort of Mac.

<side note>
I tried installing one of the hacked Leopard versions on some Intel PCs, and it wouldn't install due to some hardware incompatibilities. I figured that I would at least try out the SDK to see if it was even worth my time and investment. If it was, then I'd invest in a Mac. But due to failed installs, that route is a dead-end.
</side note>

Anyway, I figure maybe a Mac Mini running Leopard would do the trick. I've seen TONS of them on eBay. Unfortunately, the cheap ones tend to be PPC, and the Intel-based versions are going for prices close to the price of a new model.

 

[greenlightracer]

No, I'm not kidding..... and yes it can.

If you go strictly by the numbers that get posted for Benchmark it appears that the PowerMac G5's are obsolete. If you go by real world usage of applications that aren't written to take advantage of more than 2 cores/processors presently than you know that the G5's still have some pretty strong legs.

We have Mac Pros and PowerMac G5's in my art department. I will tell you this much, when running Photoshop you cannot see a noticeable difference in running the app.

People get too hung up on the "numbers".

I must totally agree. There are more components to a computer the just a processor. The G5 had "Bandwidth to Burn" and they weren't kidding. The frontside bus on the slowest DP G5 was 900Mhz... compare that to the 667Mhz buses of the first C2Ds. And although the first couple of generations of G5s only had DDR400 Ram, you had to install it in pairs, because the U3 controller would treat two dimms as one bank, doubling the throughput to around 7.4 Gigabytes IIRC.

 

[roblimo]

Is the latest beta still working on PPC ?

I feel a bit guilty for side-tracking and bumbling along about Altivec so I will try and answer as best I can:

The System requirements say you need intel.

I would wait until they've stopped shipping betas and start shipping the final SDK in June. At the moment PPC falls outside the system requirements but it appears XCode and the iPhone Simulator will still run provided you have Leopard.

However it is not support is not official and therefore could be broken at any stage in the future. So proceed with caution.

Hi
I got the original SDK running just fine on my iMacG5. Has anyone out there tried any later SDK versions? Are they all running?

thanks!

 

[kabunaru]

Good to see that the iPhone SDK can still work on PowerPC Macs.

 

[roblimo]

yes - the beta 7 is also still running ...

Hi
I got the original SDK running just fine on my iMacG5. Has anyone out there tried any later SDK versions? Are they all running?

thanks!

answering my own question:
yes - it is still working fine! I tried it - pretty much the same as before:
- install the package from the apple site
- manually install the iphone packages
- moving the iphone relating things from /platforms to /developer/platforms
- editing one arch. spec file to enable the ppc to work.
I got these from http://www.tbradford.org/2008/03/iphone-sdk-beta-2-possible-ppc-fix.html

happy playing around, waiting for the iphone to finally reach finland...

 

[Biswas]

How to Install iPhone SDK on PowerPC Macs!!!

Hi,
I am having MAC System with PowerPC Mac process. I have downloaded iPhone SDK from MAC website and installed it in my system but it omit iPhone SDK-related files.
I have got some help in online (Ref: http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/03/10/surprise-iphone-sdk-also-works-on-powerpc-macs/) where suggest to follow some steps to install the iPhone SDK in PowerPC Mac process.
The url specified above said that i have to do the following:
1. Drag the iPhone SDK package onto the Pacifist icon
2. Select the top entry, “Contents of iPhone SDK”
3. Click the “Install” button in the upper-left corner and enter your administrator credentials

> I have installed "Pacifist 2.5.2" and tried to do the first step but it is throwing an error "The item "Packages" could not be moved because "Pacifist 2.5.2" cannot be modified."

> I don't understand from where i have to drag the iPhone SDK package. I think i am doing mistake somewhere. Pls help me to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Biswas]

iPhone SDK on PowerPC Macs Issue.

Hi,
I am having MAC System with PowerPC Mac process. I have downloaded iPhone SDK from MAC website and installed it in my system but it omit iPhone SDK-related files.
I have got some help in online (Ref: http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/03/1...-powerpc-macs/) where suggest to follow some steps to install the iPhone SDK in PowerPC Mac process.
The url specified above said that i have to do the following:
1. Drag the iPhone SDK package onto the Pacifist icon
2. Select the top entry, “Contents of iPhone SDK”
3. Click the “Install” button in the upper-left corner and enter your administrator credentials

> I have installed "Pacifist 2.5.2" and tried to do the first step but it is throwing an error "The item "Packages" could not be moved because "Pacifist 2.5.2" cannot be modified."

> I don't understand from where i have to drag the iPhone SDK package. I think i am doing mistake somewhere. Pls help me to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.