Re: Porting GNUStep to Mac OS 9

[M A]

Awesome project. But the author doesn't seem to have the resources to finish 
it. So that made me wonder if it were possible to port GNUstep to Mac OS 9.

> On Oct 13, 2022, at 5:28 PM, Austin Clow <dr_clow@me.com> wrote:
> 
> I would check out https://github.com/uliwitness/AppKitForClassic for some 
> idea of where to begin. 
> 
>> On Oct 13, 2022, at 4:17 PM, Marco Cawthorne <marco@icculus.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2022-10-13 11:37:36 -0700 M A <teammember0x01@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, I was looking at this video 
>>> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I3BWaMa-Fk) on Rhapsody and it had me 
>>> thinking. Has anyone tried to port GNUStep to Mac OS 9? Is it technically 
>>> possible?
>> 
>> The first hurdle would be to get a compiler and runtime environment running 
>> on it.
>> From my memory, CodeWarrior (the IDE everyone used back in the day...) for 
>> classic
>> MacOS supported C, C++ and ASM. I did a quick search for GCC and Obj-C 
>> related
>> queries for classic MacOS but found very little. I did find a crosscompiler 
>> on GitHub
>> (autoc04/Retro68) but the compiler and runtime would need to run on the 
>> classic Mac
>> directly anyway.
>> 
>> Marco Cawthorne
>> 
>> 
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