[Swarm-Support] Re: SWARM for Mac OS X

[Bill Northcott]

XCode 1.5 can be used as an IDE for any sort of build system including 
Swarm's.  You can even use it to build code on remote machines with a 
completely different architecture.  Apple have put a number of good 
documents about this sort of thing on their developer web site 
recently.

I don't work with Fink.  Once you install Fink your UNIX style software 
like Swarm is no longer running on MacOS X.  It is running on Fink.  
Fink libraries and Fink executables will be used in preference to their 
MacOS X equivalents.  It is similar to running Swarm using Cygwin on 
Windows.  You are not really using Windows but running in the Cygwin 
environment hosted on Windows.  Fink like Cygwin introduces the whole 
raft of Linux complications on to your machine and really makes you 
responsible for managing the compatibility of the installed components. 
 There are a large number of possible reasons for something not working 
once Fink is installed.

If you send in some details of problems with console logs, we will try 
to give you some clues.

You do not need Fink to run Swarm on Panther.  All the necessary 
libraries are available from my site and they install where they will 
not interfere with any other software.

Bill Northcott

On 14/09/2004, at 4:22 AM, Guillaume Chapron wrote:

> Hello Bill,
> Thanks for the reply. Do you know if the current SWARM version works 
> with XCode 1.5 ? Why does it not work with fink installed ?? I will 
> see what I can do, I'm not a computer engineer, and all that looks 
> quite hard to me, I'm used to easy installers, etc. I will try first 
> to compile the heatbugs, and see if I can do it. If you did a document 
> with tutorial and howto for OS X, please email it to me, it will be 
> most useful. If it is too difficult, I will write my simulation models 
> from scratch.
> Regards
> Guillaume
>
> Bill Northcott wrote:
>
> > Hi Guillaume
> > You can find MacOS X binaries linked through the Swarm web site at 
> > Savannah at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/swarm.  These include 
> > everything needed to work on MacOS X.  Java is not functional (on 
> > Panther) and there are problems with forwarding, but as far I know 
> > everything else works.  The Java issues should be sorted soon and the 
> > forwarding issues are common to all non-x86 platforms (and some x86), 
> > but will hopefully be addressed in gcc 3.5.