Re: Forth for Mac OS X Leopard (Intel) - what are the options?

On Apr 4, 12:19 pm, billc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am interested in having a look at Forth but haven't been able to
> find a Forth implementation that builds on an Intel Mac running
> Leopard. I saw this
thread:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth/browse_frm/thread/6e4f...
>

I just had a go.

On the default penryn 10.5.2 I was playing around with (xcode 3.0) I
could not build ffcall - on the make it segmented faulted on test2.

I proceeded to try and build 0.6.9 out of the source tarball in any
case and it looked for ffi.h which was apparently missing and bombed
the make.

Now I admit I only had 30 mins to try it out - the next time I shall
do more digging.

By the way, fink support for leopard has apparently been discontinued
- but like yourself I was not particularly enamoured by it anyways.

My own workaround thus far is... VMware. Linux - debian. Mainly
because it's a better known entity than leopard. Or you could try and
downgrade to 10.4 and see. As you probably realize there are a lot of
people disgruntled with leopard although I suspect it's not as bad as
vista.

Cheers

Robert Spykerman