Re: MAC OS X port ... any interest?

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Elliott S. de Andrade wrote:
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>   No, there is no PPC version. You will need to compiled it. There are also=
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> 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=
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> Darwin, be aware that it is a command shell only. There is no fancy Aqua=
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> GUI. You will need to get XFree86 or something similar. I've tried it with=
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> PearPC. Too bad networking is currently only for Linux. Once the Windows=
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> networked release is done I can get XFree86 onto it. The thing doesn't seem=
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> to like mounting the fake CD ISO.
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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.

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