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Re: Porting GNUStep to Mac OS 9
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Re: Porting GNUStep to Mac OS 9 |
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Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:30:28 -0400 |
> On Oct 13, 2022, at 5:17 PM, Marco Cawthorne <marco@icculus.org> wrote:
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> On 2022-10-13 11:37:36 -0700 M A <teammember0x01@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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
It looks like the runtime and compiler are already available for classic Mac
OS, according to this page: https://github.com/uliwitness/AppKitForClassic.