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

[Rick L. V. Jr. <rvi...@cs...>]

Ramin Yaghoubzadeh wrote:
> 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

Although I can't test it, I'd be happy to accept any patches into the
mainline code as well. Especially if there are two or more people out
there are testing it.


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Rick