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Re: legOS on Mac OS X
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Date: 
Sun, 2 Dec 2001 22:35:15 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Erik Olson writes:
I haven't tried this, but, you should probably get the gcc source from the
Apple CVS server?

http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1.3/projects.html

I heard that they were folding their Darwin modifications back into the real
gcc source, that's why gnu.org isn't shipping it yet. For now the Apple CVS
server has what there is.

For general help with Unix builds on OS X try some websites:
http://www.stepwise.com
http://www.osxtalk.com

And the Reader Report on OS X is a great thing:
http://www.macintouch.com

My experience with OS X ports stopped when I discovered they use "dylib"
shared libraries, graciously described as "antique".

Looks like you're probably the first to try this, so good luck! But if the
Darwin version of cc can be built to support the h8, you're still gonna have to
(most likely) make changes to firmdl & dll programs to get them working with
the Mac. Do you have a serial or USB IR tower? The support for USB is still in
it's infancy (is anyone actually using it?).

ROSCO



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: legOS on Mac OS X
 
(...) You mean USB on Mac OS X, or the USB tower specifically on any platform? You are really screwed if you need a serial driver on OS X. Since no serial hardware exists on post-98 Apple machines, OS X omits the legacy serial driver APIs. USB is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
  Re: legOS on Mac OS X
 
(...) I was able to get NQC working with the USB tower under Mac OS X pretty easily. IMHO, support for an application to directly access USB devices is pretty good. If anyone is trying this, feel free to grab the OSX/USB code I wrote for NQC (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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  Re: legOS on Mac OS X
 
I haven't tried this, but, you should probably get the gcc source from the Apple CVS server? (URL) heard that they were folding their Darwin modifications back into the real gcc source, that's why gnu.org isn't shipping it yet. For now the Apple CVS (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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