Re: [openvrml-develop] help with build - macOS 9 ?

[Michael L. <Mic...@hr...>]

On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 06:52 , John Richardson wrote:

> The ultimate future of OpenVRML on the Mac is OS X.
>
The OpenVRML libraries and Lookat should compile just fine under Mac OS X 
-- the few minor changes that were needed in order to compile were made a 
while back, although a little hacking of the build system may still be 
necessary (instructions have been posted here in the past by a couple of 
different people) in order to build the make files and get the binary 
files to link. I think Braden has updated the autoconf setup to take Mac 
OS X into account, so the next release may build without the need to hack,
  but I haven't had time to do much recently and have not therefore been 
able to contribute with the testing and feedback required.

Sourceforge has a Mac OS X box in its compile farm which would enable 
folks without direct access to a Mac to try compiling on one, but 
unfortunately it has not been useful since Apple's developer tools are 
missing a couple of vital GNU tools that Sourceforge won't install 
individually. Apple released an update a couple of days ago, which may 
have rectified this problem (it's a 200Mb download and Apple' site has 
been very busy so I haven't got hold of a copy yet).

I haven't had any time at all to contribute to hobby coding the last few 
months (and even more significantly, don't have a PPC Mac at home at the 
moment). Hopefully in 2002...

Mike.