Rosetta 3.4 and Mac OS X 10.6.8 + Xcode 4.2


A while back I migrated my main OS to Mountain Lion mostly due to the benefits from using a Magic Trackpad, iCloud and some other things rather minor. However, being the cautious guy I am, I kept my old 10.6.8 system alive in an external drive. Why? Well, 10.6.8 + Xcode 3.6 is tried and true. Every piece of software that I run daily, private scripts and arcane configurations for many programs work and are pretty stable in that OS. 

The time came to return to Phenix and set it up with Rosetta (3.4). Phenix is easy to acquire and that left Rosetta as the software to be compiled... In the meantime since I migrated and 10.6.8 was not my main OS I installed Xcode 4.2. I tested it against Fink and everything looked dandy, that is, everything compiled just fine. So, I decided to compile Rosetta 3.4 against Xcode 4.2. 

Well, that didn't work... Since I was pretty sure Rosetta could be compiled with Xcode 3.6 I went and performed a downgrade. And that was it, in Mac OS X 10.6.8 + Xcode 3.6.2 Rosetta 3.4 compiles just fine. Good thing about compiling Rosetta in 10.6.8 is that I just copied over to my 10.8 system and it worked just fine so win + win.

Well, not many gritty details here but a cautionary tail in case you need to compile Rosetta 3.4


Comments

polarpaul said…
Where could I learn the details of how to do this so I can run my old software in OS X beyond 10.6.8?

Thanks!
October 23, 2012 at 5:46 AM
wtigger said…
I can add more detail about my experience with Rosetta but what old software are you talking about.
October 28, 2012 at 7:17 PM
Anonymous said…
I'd like to run freehand mx on os x lion - actually i just updated my snow 10.6.8 with a security update and freehand stop working - rosetta seems to have stopped too.?
November 4, 2012 at 7:10 PM
wtigger said…
Oh boy,

I should point out that this "Rosetta" is not the PowerPC emulation software from Apple.

It is for protein modeling.
January 23, 2014 at 8:41 AM
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