Re: MAC OS X port ... any interest?
- Posted by Jeff Houck <jhouck at northrim.net> Jun 05, 2004
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Elliott S. de Andrade wrote: > > No, there is no PPC version. You will need to compiled it. There are also= > =20 > some tweaks you'll need to perform for the Mac architecture. There are=20 > certain differences with shared libraries/IO/etc. With GCC essentially=20 > ported to OSX though, it shouldn't cause too much difficulty. If you do get= > =20 > Darwin, be aware that it is a command shell only. There is no fancy Aqua= > =20 > GUI. You will need to get XFree86 or something similar. I've tried it with= > =20 > PearPC. Too bad networking is currently only for Linux. Once the Windows= > =20 > networked release is done I can get XFree86 onto it. The thing doesn't seem= > =20 > to like mounting the fake CD ISO. > Actually, I'll probably just work the commandline interface. I've downloaded Darwin from the Open-Darwing site and will hopefully have a box working this weekend. My initial goal is to get the core compiled and tested first, then move on to OS specific issues, like the windowing API. One step at a time as they say.