Re: [qlist] [q-lang-users] CVS issues/Q 7.1

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Andrew Berg wrote:
> I tried a while ago to port Q to 64 bit, using a little bit of spare  
> time at work, where I have an AMD 64 bit machine running Ubuntu  Linux.  
> Since then I have become busy enough that I cannot devote  enough time 
> to do porting/development, but I could still do some  testing.

Hi Andrew, thanks for the offer! I think that as soon as I have a beta 
of 7.2 working on my G4 and Intel 64 bit systems I'll upload a release 
candidate and give you and Tim a notice so that you can start testing it 
on your machines and we can work out any remaining quirks.

> How much OS X support do you foresee?

Well, I really want to get the entire Q environment working again, 
including all the add-on modules. Actually I had that working at some 
point in time (during the 4.x releases I regularly ported to OSX and 
even provided binary packages), so that shouldn't be too difficult. One 
major stumbling stone, however, was that I couldn't figure out a way to 
make GNU automake+libtool link against a framework, so the only way I 
could get the Tcl/Tk module to work was with the X11-based Tcl/Tk which 
I compiled myself. But of course it would be preferable to link against 
the native (Aqua) version of Tcl/Tk which is provided as a framework. 
I'll also have to solve that problem in order to link against MidiShare 
which, if I'm not mistaken, is distributed as a framework rather than a 
simple dylib these days. So any advice on this will be greatly 
appreciated! :)

Interfacing to Objective C is an entirely different matter, however. 
Right now the only foreign language interface Q has is to C/C++, and the 
SWIG interface is built on top of that. But AFAIK SWIG doesn't support 
Objective C, and so I have no idea how to do a bridge to that language 
(which I've never used myself). If anyone would be willing to work on 
this, I'll be glad to provide as much help as I can, but I probably 
won't be able to do it myself. Especially since I want to do a complete 
overhaul of the interpreter core and start work on the bytecode -> 
native code compiler later this year. ;-)

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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