Subject: Re: Commit: Mac portability
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 08:26:35 CST
At 10:13 AM +0000 2/12/01, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>There are probably some practices oriented toward gcc extensions,
>that are supported by other vendor. The problem is that MrCPP (based
>upon the Symantec C/C++ compiler) is really late and does not really
>evolve.
Yup, MrC is pretty much a dead end at this point (as is MPW
for that matter). Although I understand the desire to compile/build
AbiWord with a free development system, I think we may be shooting
ourselves in the foot by doing so - not unlike how our Wintel folks
prefer to use the VC environment over CygWin.
>Plan B will be to provide a makefile modifications that will allow
>compiling using Metrowerks Compiler for MPW (included with
>CodeWarrior)
I would DEFINITELY suggest going that route.
>unless there is a viable gcc port aroubd.
>
Well, Stan Shebs, the guy who did the original gcc for Mac OS
port and then went to work for Cygnus is back at Apple....
Leonard
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