Re: [MACTCL] Ponderings of an open source developer...

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

James,

I am glad this is going well!


> If you have more demanding X uses when the XonX project can provide a 
> full
> Xfree86 (currently v4.2) for MacOS X for free. Also the Fink and 
> Gnu-Darwin
> projects (also free) can provide the rest of the GNU experience 
> (although at
> present I haven't needed any of this as the standard development 
> environment
> seems to contain all I need except for Fortran, but I think f2c will 
> solve
> that).
>

Yes, we got pretty much all the standard TclPro Tcl suite, BLT, TkTable, 
etc, built and running with XonX with very little trouble.  The X Server 
seems pretty fast, too, though the Motif look of Tk is pretty odd next 
to the Aqua desktop...

When gcc3 is all the way done for MacOS X the default compiler will 
include g77.  For now, you can check out gcc3 from the Darwin sources 
and build it (I don't know if it is built in Fink or not).  There have 
been a number of notes from the Darwin list telling of success in 
getting Fortran code to compile with g77.  This is not going to be the 
super-optimizing Fortran compiler that you are used to from, say, the 
SGI or VAX environments...  For that, you will probably have to wait for 
the AbSoft compiler.  But it gets the job done.

Jim
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Jim Ingham                                   ji...@ap...
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