[hoc-devel] HOC on mac os 10.5

[Daniel R. <da...@ph...>]

Greetings,

I'm trying to build HOC on Mac OS 10.5 (i386).  There are a lot of  
things that don't work, and a lot of things that are unnecessary.   
Here is a list.

1. libffi is included with the default install of mac os x (and it's  
newer).

2. The bundled libffi doesn't build on 10.5.

3. Obj-C 2.0 apparently sufficiently changed the header files that  
they no longer parse correctly.

4. However, parsing the header files is mute, since apple 10.5  
included BridgeSupport.  So there is no need to include a parser for  
header files, since it is sufficient to parse the xml file for the  
framework.   And apple has included a .bridgesupport file for every  
framework they have, and a tool for generating your own.

5. 10.5 has optional garbage collection, which would simplify things a  
great deal.

6. 10.5 deprecated a whole slew of the objective-c runtime methods.   
This is related to GC.

Anyways, it interests me to do so, so I'm attempting resolve some of  
these issues.

-- 
Daniel