Re: [B2-devel] Status of Mac OS X port?

[Joseph O. <jos...@gm...>]

On Mar 4, 2011, ast 9:07 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Joseph Oswald wrote:
>
> > 4) timer_unix.cpp with __MACH__ true (as it is on Mac OS X) is incompatible with the struct timeval chosen for tm_time_t. I can fix that, by converting tv_usec to tv_nsec, but I'm not sure what other Mach targets want. Do other Mach targets use HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME? Should Mac OS X configuration be altered to pick struct timespec? Should I special case timer_unix.cpp to separate Mac OS X from other Mach targets?
>
> The tm_time_t should be a mach_timespec_t when __MACH__ is true. However, if you can improve the timer, go to town. That precise timer code has never worked as well as hoped, to the point where a lot of people have just been #ifdefing it out.
>

I don't know enough to tell whether the code works or not, but the
attached patch to MacOSX/sysdeps.h allows it to use the
mach_timespec_t

> I don’t believe there are any other Mach targets other than Mac OS X currently in use.
>
> Charles

>
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> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:50:08 -0500
> From: Joseph Oswald <jos...@gm...>
> Subject: [B2-devel] Status of Mac OS X port?
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> I have become interested in using Basilisk II to emulate a 68k macintosh on
> my Intel MacBookPro, running 10.6.6.
>
> I have found a few binaries of various ages, from Gwenol? Beauchesne (via
> archive.org) and from emaculation.net. However, I can't seem to replicate
> these from source.
>
> 1) The src/MacOSX/configure script generated by autoconf is broken (it has
> bad syntax after the egrep test). Applying a fix from the src/Unix fixes
> this. (patch attached) FYI, this also is broken in the MacPorts
> distribution, which I initially tried to use.
>
>  (minor quibble: my understanding of autoconf is for developers to run
> autoconf, and for source distributions to include the resulting configure
> scripts, which are portable. This avoids recipients from needing up-to-date
> autoconf installations. autoupdate in autoconf 2.88 wanted to tweak a few
> obsolete constructs in the MacOSX/configure.in)
>
> 2) nowrite.icns is required by PrefsEditor.mm, but is apparently not
> included or generated by CVS head.
>
> 3) The target "make ide" described by the configure output seems not to
> exist.
>
> 4) timer_unix.cpp with __MACH__ true (as it is on Mac OS X) is incompatible
> with the struct timeval chosen for tm_time_t. I can fix that, by converting
> tv_usec to tv_nsec, but I'm not sure what other Mach targets want. Do other
> Mach targets use HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME? Should Mac OS X configuration be
> altered to pick struct timespec? Should I special case timer_unix.cpp to
> separate Mac OS X from other Mach targets?
>
> 5) Unix sshpty.c seems to have typos in the definition and use of the
> fatal() macro. (Patch attached)
>
> 6) After fixing the fatal macro, I seem to need to force #define
> HAVE_OPENPTY 1 to compile. I'm not sure what the correct solution is.
>
> 7) main_macosx.mm complains that the -psn_XXX command-line flag (with the
> process ID) is not recognized. An attached patch skips this argument (I
> don't know what it would be used for).
>
> Even after all of this, I get a hang with a black screen at startup. (I
> initially started with a IIfx ROM, but switched to a Performa ROM based on
> it working better with the binaries I downloaded.)
>
> Any comments? Does anyone maintain or build the Mac OS X port?