Re: [MACTCL] Carbon port

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 16:08 +0100 on 6/1/02, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

>Do I need to make it a Mach-O, in that case I'm stuck since I'm running
>CW Pro 6.2. I'll better get myself a sponsor for a X machine :-)

for an extension yes you need MachO, no way around it. This is 
because Tcl can't load CFM libraries currently, and it would be 
hard/impossible to make that work IMHO.
Even for an application embedding Tcl it's almost impossible to use 
CFM, I tried for a while, and it's just too hard... (the main problem 
hard to work around was that function ptrs are very different in CFM 
and MachO, and obviously you need to pass a lot of those to Tcl when 
e.g. creating new commands)

for a Tcl only extension you could get by using the command line 
tools on the SF compile farm, but for QuickTimeTcl I don't think it's 
possible to do a port without GUI access to a OSX box (OTOH, once you 
have that, you won't need CW Pro 7, the free apple tools are very 
nice)

Do you have your current carbonized sources available somewhere? I'd 
be interested to take a look.

Cheers,

Daniel
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