[Gcl-devel] Re: GCL on Macosx

[Antoine Hersen]

Hello,

My goal is to have axiom work so I guess it is a necessary step.
And I will be very interested into getting more insight gcl and I  
have been shying away from C for too long.
I guess has tiger use gcc 4.0 it is also worthy works for all future  
distribs.
And I have some free time during this summer.

What is the status of the documentation ?

I check out the last HEAD and found new error

(cd o; make all)
gcc -I/sw/include -c -I/sw/include -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char  
-pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer  -I/Users/antoinehersen/Project/axiom/ 
gcl-cvs2/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk main.c
main.c: In function 'install_segmentation_catcher':
main.c:417: warning: passing argument 2 of 'signal' from incompatible  
pointer type
main.c:417: warning: passing argument 2 of 'signal' from incompatible  
pointer type
main.c: In function 'initlisp':
main.c:468: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
main.c:469: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
main.c:471: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
main.c: In function 'segmentation_catcher':
main.c:666: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2



On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Camm Maguire wrote:

> Greetings!  Would you two dedicated gcl/mac people like to volunteer
> to help Aurelien look after the macosx port, presuming he is
> interested in such an arrangement?  His work is outstanding, and he
> has cvs write access.  I would suggest considering you both as gcl
> developers, but some of you at least have expressed reservations about
> complex C programming.
>
> What we really need is some good testing and continual rebuilding
> support with bug reports, particularly as CVS head changes quickly
> (hopefully) in these summer months.  Aurelien is in complete charge of
> the following files:
>
> h/powerpc-macosx.c
> o/unexmacosx.c
> binutils/*/mach-o*
> o/sfaslmacosx.c
>
> and of course can contribute changes elsewhere, but hopefully with
> some discussion and coordination beforehand.
>
> There are two known macosx limitations which ideally can be fixed for
> 2.7:
>
> 1) Cannot build a working image with more than 512M heap
>    (i.e. --enable-maxpage=262144)
>
> 2) SGC is broken.
>
> Furthermore, I would like hopefully to
>
> 1) synchronize the sbrk emulation layer with other ports needing it
>    i.e. mingw.
>
> 2) synchronize the sbrk emulation layer with the configuration magic
>    setting heap starts, limits, stack sizes, etc.  Please see my other
>    post to Mike Thomas about this.
>
> I'm trying to make a little GCL push this summer, after which it will
> likely develop much more slowly during the rest of the year.  It would
> be great to have an active mac team during this time.
>
> Take care,
> --
> Camm Maguire                             address@hidden
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