Commit 59cd20b0 authored by Morten Johan Sørvig's avatar Morten Johan Sørvig Committed by Tor Arne Vestbø
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Document removal of macOS 32-bit support


32-bit support has been deprecated for some time,
and several breaking changes have gone into the 5.10
branch.

Make the current state official: Qt 5.10 and higher
will not support 32-bit mode. Qt 5.9 LTS will continue
to do so.

Change-Id: Iaea4f3499054093984ad70cb60b837fb506ca16e
Reviewed-by: default avatarTor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJake Petroules <jake.petroules@qt.io>
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See \l{Supported Platforms} for the list of \macos versions supported by Qt. See \l{Supported Platforms} for the list of \macos versions supported by Qt.
Qt can be built for either x86 or x86_64. 64-bit is used by default. Qt can be built for either x86_64 or x86_64h (Haswell). x86_64 is used by default.
To select a 32-bit build, use the \c QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS \c qmake variable. To select a x86_64h build, use the \c QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS \c qmake variable.
This is selectable at configure time: This is selectable at configure time:
\code \code
./configure -platform macx-clang QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS=i386 ./configure -platform macx-clang QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS=x86_64h
\endcode \endcode
\c QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS can also be specified as a space-delimited list \c QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS can also be specified as a space-delimited list
in order to build for multiple architectures simultaneously: in order to build for multiple architectures simultaneously:
\code \code
./configure -platform macx-clang QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS="i386 x86_64 x86_64h" ./configure -platform macx-clang QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS="x86_64 x86_64h"
\endcode \endcode
\note Qt 5.10+ does not support 32-bit builds.
\note Qt 5 does not support OS X on PowerPC. \note Qt 5 does not support OS X on PowerPC.
\note Static builds are not tested. \note Static builds are not tested.
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