ok, im one step ahead already! i have Xdarwin running on my system already, following links from you guys, i found that yesterday and thought it seemed important.
im running a Macintosh G4 400 w/ 512mb ram...as far as software info, im not sure what direction you want? i dont really know much about the unix side of OSX...libraries included, which shell it uses...things like this?...i DL'd the mac OSX dev tools, which includes all the warez needed to develop your own OSX-apps...but most of the apps are completely foreign to me... please give me a little more direction and i will hunt down any info you need... i dont know what you mean by X-target thanks for the quick responce, -jack On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 09:40 AM, Christoph Egger wrote: >> hello, >> >> im a Macintosh OSX user w/ little to no unix knowledge. i know since >> OSX is based in unix know you CAN run linux apps. ive been attempting >> to configure xscorch, a unix port of the old DOS game Scorched Earth, >> and requires libggi. i have tried to load this, but have encountered >> errors. >> >> these errors could very likely the result of my lack of knowledge, >> but i >> thought maybe someone on this list could help. is there an OSX >> 'version' of libggi? is there something else i need to load it? >> >> thanks for any assistance anyone out there can offer, > > Jack, we must tell you, that you are the _first_ guy, who ever tried to > get > GGI running under Mac OS. So this is a very new area for us as well. > > We have the Unix knowledge you lack of, and you have the Mac OS/PPC > knowledge we need. :) > > Therefore, please give us as much information about your system as you > can > (both software and hardware). > > And thus, libggi has no target to for Mac OS to draw something on the > screen. But that doesn't mean, that it is impossible to get running. > > For example, I know of an existance of a X-server for Mac OS X. It is > called > XDarwin. Once you get it running on your system, then you can use > libggi's > X-target, which should work. If not, we will fix it up (with your help > about > your system, of course). > > > -- > CU, > > Christoph Egger > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > http://www.gmx.net >
