Re: mac or ipad
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Jan 17, 2012
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Do we yet have a version of eu for a mac?
I've had no trouble compiling the 4.0.3 source on my eMac (PowerPC) running 10.4, and I know it runs just fine on later Macs (since those are just Intel/UNIX machines). There may be some binary release once 4.1 is out, but otherwise it's relatively simple to configure/make/make install just like on any other *NIX machine.
I've dabbled with the Carbon API (that is, I started wrapping it but haven't tested anything yet), but Apple is gradually phasing it out in favor of the Cocoa API, which makes exclusive use of Objective-C. It would be better to use wxEuphoria to build GUI apps for Mac OS, which I'll get around to testing at some point. I have no idea if it will even build in a PowerPC environment, but I'm sure it'll run fine on the Intel Macs.
or ipad?
The iPads run on an ARM architecture, which I believe should work correctly but there has been some discussion on issues with wxEuphoria, etc. I imagine the biggest hurdle to getting Euphoria on an iPad is that the OFFICIAL programming environment for iPad uses Xcode and Objective-C. One would have to "jailbreak" an iPad to get Euphoria installed. Even then, I think you'd have to build an Objective-C library to provide a C interface for Euphoria to use, just to get into the graphics side of things.
-Greg
