Re: Linux to MacOSX port effort.

[W . Northcott]

About two months ago ALEX appeared  to write:
>If you need a Mac port co-ordinator, I could be the person.
>The steps we have to follow are:
>  1) compile the "right" gcc
>  2) compile all the needed software
>  3) COmpile Swarm under MacOxX/Darwin with XFree.
>  4) Try to substitute the X Routines with OsX routines.
>How about starting with point 1?
>and how about to insert all the patched sources on a web-site?
>Regards.

  1) seems to be thoroughly beaten, the cvs sources will compile almost 
every time.  The resulting compiler works nicely with Project Builder. 
Apple have just released a version (tag gcc3-1041) on the April 2002 
Developer Tools as a beta of the next shipping compiler (Jaguar?).

  2) and 4)With some considerable assistance from Jim Ingham at Apple, I 
have got the Aqua port of Tcl/Tk to compile (with gcc 3.1) in such a way 
as it should be usable to compile BLT.  These are Frameworks with Project 
Builder builds.
I think I now understand enough to get BLT2.4x to at least compile within 
a matter of days.  Bugs are another matter.
Hopefully this should remove the need for the X-windows installation.

So what progress has been made by others out there on the needed libraries 
and even compiling the Swarm libraries?

Bill Northcott

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