From: Michael L. <Mic...@hr...> - 2001-12-18 08:55:14
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On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 06:52 , John Richardson wrote: > The ultimate future of OpenVRML on the Mac is OS X. > The OpenVRML libraries and Lookat should compile just fine under Mac OS X -- the few minor changes that were needed in order to compile were made a while back, although a little hacking of the build system may still be necessary (instructions have been posted here in the past by a couple of different people) in order to build the make files and get the binary files to link. I think Braden has updated the autoconf setup to take Mac OS X into account, so the next release may build without the need to hack, but I haven't had time to do much recently and have not therefore been able to contribute with the testing and feedback required. Sourceforge has a Mac OS X box in its compile farm which would enable folks without direct access to a Mac to try compiling on one, but unfortunately it has not been useful since Apple's developer tools are missing a couple of vital GNU tools that Sourceforge won't install individually. Apple released an update a couple of days ago, which may have rectified this problem (it's a 200Mb download and Apple' site has been very busy so I haven't got hold of a copy yet). I haven't had any time at all to contribute to hobby coding the last few months (and even more significantly, don't have a PPC Mac at home at the moment). Hopefully in 2002... Mike. |