porting Libraries from linux to Darwin (Mac OS X 10.4)

porting Libraries from linux to Darwin (Mac OS X 10.4)

[John J. Boyer]

To make my xml/mathml to braille translator as widely available as 
possible I need to 
port the libraries glib-2.0 and libgdome2 to native Mac OS X 10.4, that 
is to the Darwin flavor of Unix. I want the application to run without 
having to install Fink or Darwinports. And of course I want it to 
install easily with all the required libraries. So I'm wondering if 
someone on the list has experience porting libraries from Linux to 
Darwin.

Thanks,
John

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Re: porting Libraries from linux to Darwin (Mac OS X 10.4)

[David Poehlman]

John and all,

On the apple site, there is quite a bit on the open source side.  You  
might try looking there to see if ports already exist.  Let me know  
if You need help with this.

Thanks!

-- 
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s


On Dec 26, 2005, at 4:17 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:

To make my xml/mathml to braille translator as widely available as
possible I need to
port the libraries glib-2.0 and libgdome2 to native Mac OS X 10.4, that
is to the Darwin flavor of Unix. I want the application to run without
having to install Fink or Darwinports. And of course I want it to
install easily with all the required libraries. So I'm wondering if
someone on the list has experience porting libraries from Linux to
Darwin.

Thanks,
John

-- 
John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
Computers to Help People, Inc.
www.chpi.org
6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716

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Re: porting Libraries from linux to Darwin (Mac OS X 10.4)

[T. Joseph CARTER]

The way I would suggest doing it is to grab the fink versions of those
libraries, examine the patch and info files if any, and build them that
way.  I did this for building xpdf last night so I could have an pdftotext
that would ignore the ridiculous permission bits and let me read a PDF
whose textual content is impossible otherwise.  I can try to help if you
need some--I'm a Mac user.  My fledgling book reader is actually being
written on a Mac using Apple's Macintalk because it sounds way better than
Festival Lite, and I'm not ready to fork over cash for something better on
the Linux platform until I have something a little more complete to offer
people.

I've kinda abandoned the use of an emacspeak speech server in my own work
because I'm using a word callback to tell me approximately how far into
the buffer the thing has read when you hit the pause button.  I haven't a
clue how to do that with the speech server model devised by Dr. Raman.
(Suggestions are welcome though since I could probably port my Intone API
to it pretty easily if there's a good way..)

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 03:17:52PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> To make my xml/mathml to braille translator as widely available as 
> possible I need to 
> port the libraries glib-2.0 and libgdome2 to native Mac OS X 10.4, that 
> is to the Darwin flavor of Unix. I want the application to run without 
> having to install Fink or Darwinports. And of course I want it to 
> install easily with all the required libraries. So I'm wondering if 
> someone on the list has experience porting libraries from Linux to 
> Darwin.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> -- 
> John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
> Computers to Help People, Inc.
> www.chpi.org
> 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716  
> 
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