test MacOSX application binary on PPC MacOSX

Question

I want to add support for PPC to my MacOSX application, i.e. also support for either MacOSX 10.4 or MacOSX 10.5.

What would be an easy way to test my build whether it works on PPC?

I thought about running MacOSX 10.5 in a PPC emulator but I can't even get PearPC to compile (but that isn't the scope of this question). Is that the easiest way or is there some simpler way to test my builds? How are other people doing it? (Despite just dropping the support for older MacOSX and dropping PPC support.)

Answer 1

There are a couple ways that come to mind:

1. Find a real PPC Mac. These go for pretty cheap on eBay.
2. Strip out the x86 sections, using lipo/ditto, keeping only the ppc sections, and run it in Rosetta with 10.6. Unfortunately 10.7 and later do not support Rosetta.