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Re: Carbonizing Mac Xconq
- From: "smsutton at iwon dot com" <smsutton at iwon dot com>
- To: hronne at telia dot com, shebs at apple dot com
- Cc: xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:46:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Carbonizing Mac Xconq
- Reply-to: smsutton at iwon dot com
By the way, the Forte 6 C++ compiler won't compile Xconq. The type conversions in the obstack code fail. Possibly because it's ISO compliant rather than ANSI? The C compiles fine, as long as you use the -xCC option to allow C++ style comments.
--- On Wed 10/16, Hans Ronne wrote:
From: Hans Ronne [mailto: hronne@telia.com]
To: shebs@apple.com
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:56:36 +0200
Subject: Re: Carbonizing Mac Xconq
> >Amazingly enough, I have a work-related reason to consider Carbonizing
> >Mac Xconq (Apple only works on OS X now, as you may have heard :-) ).
> >I started on it over a year ago, and got it to the point of getting
> >a splash screen up and then crashing, but didn't continue with it.
> >Has anybody - I guess that means Hans :-) - spent any time on
> >Carbonizing the Mac interface?
>
> I started on it back in January, but stopped pretty soon, since I gave a
> higher priority to fixing the network code and the Windows code. I can
> send
> you the files if you want but you would probably be better off starting
> fresh, or using the files you hacked yourself. There has been quite a few
> changes in the Mac interface in the last year, but nothing dramatic.
> Mostly
> bug fixes and minor tweaks.
>
> Hans
>
> P.S. The Mac interface is not yet C++ compatible, either. Ed, who did
> this
> for the rest of xconq had no way of handling the Mac code. I started on
> this and checked in some C++ compatibility fixes, but the conversion has
> not been completed yet.
>
>
>
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