Re: Wow...

[Michael van Acken <Michael.van.Acken@de.uu.net>]

Tim.Teulings@materna.de writes:

> Hallo!
> 
> AFAIK there at least two people that showed interest in porting OOC
> to the Mac. Non of them seemed to have finished the work.
> 
> The main problem seems to be, that the Mac does not have all POSIX
> functions and structures the runtime library of oo2c depends on.

The run-time system is no problem.  The low-level, system dependent
modules need some work.  By this I mean, e.g., the files access
stuff.  The current implementation builds upon POSIX system calls, but
there is no reason to build them on other, native OS APIs.  After all,
an O2 module like `Files' is an abstraction layer that is intended to
hide system specific stuff.  The number of low-level modules
implemented in C is quite small, and most of the stuff is very
trivial.

-- mva