Re: Rough Update and Question

[W . Northcott]

>You won't be able to get Swarm running under MacOS X with the current
>codebase due to some tricky low-level runtime issues w.r.t. MacOS
>X/GCC/ObjC/GNUStep toolchain.  There is an active porting project, led

As a result of the various discussions in recent weeks, I am sure that 
Swarm could be compiled on MacOS X with only minor tweaks.  Problems with 
development tools have largely been solved in Jaguar. I notice the latest 
cvs tag (gcc3-1210) describes itself as gcc3.3.  Unfortunately it will not 
compile right now on my system.

You would have to use XFree86 with tcl/tk8.3 in order for BLT to compile. 
Indeed I have got this far.
The MacOS X Aqua version of tcl/tk is 8.4 which is not yet supported by 
BLT.  I notice that MacOS X isms have been appearing in the BLT cvs in 
recent days.  So this may improve. 

Any Swarm Objective-C code, including models, would have to be compiled 
with the -fgnu-runtime flag and it would not be possible to use any Apple 
Objective-C frameworks like AppKit or Foundation.
 am hoping to get enough time in the next couple of weeks to make this 
happen.  Also the usual MacOS X flags -fno-common and -dynamic to produce 
.dylibs.  If you use PB it wil take care of this for you.

Bill Northcott

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