At 9:04 AM +0100 6/10/02, ewitness - Ben Fowler wrote: >At 12:05 pm -0700 9/6/02, Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>At 1:11 AM +0200 6/9/02, Vadim Zeitlin wrote: >>>On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 09:01:45 +0100 ewitness - Ben Fowler >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>eBF> > interesting news! Which one? >>>eBF> >>>eBF> Classic MacOS. Mac OS 9. <URL: http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm > >>> >>> I think that a Mac OS 9 port would be a rather difficult thing to do. This >>>is why I'm personally mostly interested in Mac OS X one as it's much more >>>realistic (well, in fact, it already works). AFAIK, the network layer is >>>quite different in Mac OS 9 and so you'd have to do quite a bit of work on >>>c-client and not only Mahogany... Of course, I might be totally wrong as I >>>know nothing about Macs. And I'd surely be very glad if M ran under Mac OS >>>9! >> >>Some time ago (a few years actually), I had attempted to port >>Mahogany to MacOS (what we know as classic today). It is not trivial. >>The biggest stumbling block was getting c-client to compile/run. >>There was already a port of wxWindows/wxMac which worked pretty OK. >>So I think if c-client can be ported, then a MacOS Classic port >>should be do-able. One option of getting c-client and the networking >>code to work may be to use the GUSI layer that provides a Unix-type >>socket interface on the Mac. >> >>Ujwal > >I agree that c_client is a sticking point. > >Do you have any hints? >
I found trying to get c-client to compile using the Mac native networking interface difficult. If I were to do it again, I would try to use GUSI that provides a BSD socket interface to the Mac (Classic). http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/gusi-qa.html Ujwal _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
