Re: GForth 6.2 built on Mac Xcode troubles

20 days later (sorry I am very busy IRL at the mo...)

On Mar 11, 12:43 pm, 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' :-)  )
,,,snip

ROFL - I got a hand me down too - I wish I could say I got me a
duallie G5 but the ibook will do -  I spent most of last night trying
to build 0,6.2 on the G4 with GCC3.3 OS X 10.3.9.

I built ffcall 1.1 then proceeded to go for gforth...

I finally got 0.6.2 compiled with the long long switch

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Known-problems.html

It runs, it links to ffcall dynamically but there are a few issues I
have yet to sit down and figure out ie the word see seems to crash the
system.

*** Has anyone build a gforth 0.6.x on an old PPC G4 set up like mine
succesfully and can tell me about their experiences?

I know it's been done :

Bit of googling and I note Ian Osgood posted a link to a .dmg with a
prebuilt binary (0.6.2 with ffcall statically linked in) circa
2006. ).

http://www.quirkster.com/forth/gforth.dmg.gz

This appears to work beutifully - it may solve your problem but it's
not likely G5 optimised - it ran on my G4.

I don't actually know if it has a PPC asm built in - can't check I'm
out on my Eee at the moment (great piece of kit).

Hmm... come to think of it I recall I had some slight problems
building gforth on my Eee now come to think of it - I'll post my
workaround i case anyone's in the same boat.

Robert Spykerman