Re: [Dbus-cxx-devel] OS X support

[Ramin Y. <rya...@te...>]

Tyler Conant wrote:
> I'm thinking about adding OS X support for this project. The immediate issue I run into when compiling is the use of timer_t. OS X doesn't support the TMR option of POSIX. One of the options would be to use the asio library from boost. Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter. It would probably mean not using signals but rather a separate thread to handle timers.

Did you (or someone else) in the mean time reach any preliminary decision
about it, or even working code implementing this?

Our workgroup would very much welcome any progress towards having
dbus-cxx (incl. dbus-cxx-glibmm) run on OSX - in fact, the lack of
support of D-Bus on OSX in C++ (as opposed to other languages) is the
only unaddressed (but essential) point left in our emerging D-Bus-based
communication layer. (I did already silently curse the OSX team for
omitting the practically omnipresent timer extension..)
I could probably contribute some time again working on / debugging
this as well! I agree with your approach, but I cannot contribute
any knowledge or assessment of the asio lib :(

Would love to hear any news regarding this,
Regards,
   Ramin