Subject:
|
txt2dat on Mac OS X (was Re: Announcing Bitsticker)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac
|
Date:
|
Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:59:11 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
6000 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
| |
In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
| |
Hey, txt2dat is cool! It looks like it should build on the Mac, too, so
I’m puttering with rewriting the Makefile to make that happen. (The
triangle library builds fine with the -DLINUX switch turned off.) It’s
part of my new crusade to get every LDraw program on earth ported to the
Mac. Any other LDraw utility authors - watch out! You’re next. ;-)
|
Hey, that’d be great! The makefile is a bit of a rat’s nest, because I
borrowed it from the freetype library, and modified it. The main reason I did
that was for cross-platform compatability, but I’ve never had a Mac to try
on. If you can get it to build on the Mac, I’d be happy to work any changes
into the official version.
|
Hi Ross,
It works! I just built it by hand, so I’ll write a simple makefile for it
tomorrow. Only issue is that the version of Freetype 2 that comes with OS X
doesn’t seem to know about FT_Orientation, so I just ifdeffed out the few
bits that referred to that, possibly at the expense of handling certain cases
(Postscript fonts which are wound the other way, perhaps? I dunno).
I have a proposition: working out a Mac build is great, but what would you say
to adapting txt2dat to run on the web (like Bitsticker)? Even more than my Mac
crusade, I like the idea of making all these LDraw tools more accessible to the
casual user, who may not be so keen on the command line or even just installing
lots of little programs. I’d be willing to work on that, when possible, and I
could even host it since my web server supports compiled CGI “scripts.”
Jim
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
|
| (...) Hey, that'd be great! The makefile is a bit of a rat's nest, because I borrowed it from the freetype library, and modified it. The main reason I did that was for cross-platform compatability, but I've never had a Mac to try on. If you can get (...) (17 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
|
18 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
