I'm looking at porting GT.M to Apple's OS X. OS X is BSD Unix under the covers and the latest Macs now use the Intel CPUs (i386).
So, I need to ask...
1. Is it possible? Without recompiling binaries?
2. I have a Mac Mini (Intel). I installed SUSE (virtually, via Parallels) and installed the latest GT.M. I then copied the resulting GT.M directory from SUSE to OS X. Is that good enough to get started?
3. Any other help and/or push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
4. FWIW: I was hoping to get lucky by trying variations of the make command as shown in the README file. It always ends with "*** No rule to make target `pro_all', needed by `all'. Stop."
TIA,
Chuck
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The GT.M binaries at Source Forge are reported to run just fine on FreeBSD on x86. Have you tried running them? Let's try the latest binaries first native on OS X and then worry about re-building.
What happens if you simply try installing the binaries on OS X?
Also, I would check on Apple forums about running Linux binaries on OS X. Supposedly for FreeBSD, there is a standard shared library that allows this to happen.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
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I wouldn't expect it to run out of the box. There is likely to be a library that allows Linux binaries to run on OS X. Ask in the OSX development forums.
-- Bhaskar
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I'm looking at porting GT.M to Apple's OS X. OS X is BSD Unix under the covers and the latest Macs now use the Intel CPUs (i386).
So, I need to ask...
1. Is it possible? Without recompiling binaries?
2. I have a Mac Mini (Intel). I installed SUSE (virtually, via Parallels) and installed the latest GT.M. I then copied the resulting GT.M directory from SUSE to OS X. Is that good enough to get started?
3. Any other help and/or push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
4. FWIW: I was hoping to get lucky by trying variations of the make command as shown in the README file. It always ends with "*** No rule to make target `pro_all', needed by `all'. Stop."
TIA,
Chuck
Chuck --
The GT.M binaries at Source Forge are reported to run just fine on FreeBSD on x86. Have you tried running them? Let's try the latest binaries first native on OS X and then worry about re-building.
What happens if you simply try installing the binaries on OS X?
Also, I would check on Apple forums about running Linux binaries on OS X. Supposedly for FreeBSD, there is a standard shared library that allows this to happen.
Regards
-- Bhaskar
I tried the install. Geteuid will not see me as root. Bypassing that call let configure run but only gave me a bunch of these:
chown: bin: Invalid argument
install: bin: Invalid argument
So I tried running the binaries I had copied over. BSD doesn't seem to want to execute mumps (as in 'mumps -direct').
I wouldn't expect it to run out of the box. There is likely to be a library that allows Linux binaries to run on OS X. Ask in the OSX development forums.
-- Bhaskar
Bhaskar,
Any chance that any of those the folks who've reported GT.M to run just fine on FreeBSD would be willing to describe how they did it?
Thanks,
Chuck
Chuck --
I'll get you in touch with them offline.
-- Bhaskar
Here is a quote from the person who reported success:
I simply installed FreeBSD using the "minimal" install and installed
the Linux compatiability port. All is good on FreeBSD front.
-- Bhaskar