brian.fox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Mar 10, 11:19 pm, John Doty <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> brian....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> Hello GForth experts,
>>> I have inherited a 'hand-me-down' Dual G5 from my wife, the graphic
>>> designer (ellyfox.com). I of course had to install the newest Xcode
>>> tools for the Leopard version of OS/X. And of course I don't know
>>> very much about C. I have built GForth in the past using the command
>>> line. (Even I can type 'make' :-) )
>> The easy way is to install Fink (http://www.finkproject.org/).
That's a
>> Unix open source software im****tation system for MacOSX. Then just
"fink
>> install gforth" from the command line.
>>
>> --
>> John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.http://www.noqsi.com/
>> --
>> History teaches that logical consistency is neither sufficient nor
>> necessary to establish practical, real world truth. Those who attempt
to
>> use logic for that purpose are abusing it.
>
> Thanks John, I was looking at the Fink site and didn't understand the
> need. GForth will compile perfectly at the command line on OS/X with
> just 'make'. I will look closer at Fink to understand it better.
What the Fink packagers do is fix the little incompatibilities between
the "****table" source and the MacOSX environment. For some packages they
have precompiled binaries, which saves time. It's a lot like the Linux
distributions, and contains many of the same packages. If you know the
autotools inside and out, you don't need Fink, but still it saves time
unless you want run a bleeding edge or development release.
>
> I was trying to understand this fancy development suite, Xcode, and
> maybe, just maybe at some point get a window to open with gforth
> running like win32forth.
>
> After that's done, I was wondering if we could help our the Power Mops
> people by building Mike's system on top of a "Mac Gforth". It
> wouldn't be native code but at least it would be running an Intel
> Binary on the new Macs.
>
> I am dreaming in technicolour for my 'C' skill-set but it seems
> doable.
>
> Brian
--
John Doty, Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
--
History teaches that logical consistency is neither sufficient nor
necessary to establish practical, real world truth. Those who attempt to
use logic for that purpose are abusing it.
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