• Billy <Billy_member pathlink.com> Jul 31 2005
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> Jul 31 2005
• Def <Def_member pathlink.com> Sep 13 2005

Billy <Billy_member pathlink.com> writes:

Hello, can I use D on Windows and create an executable file that will run
on the Mac as well? And if yes, do I need Apple's libraries? Can I
download them off the web? Any step-by-step tutorial available? How about
a cross platform GUI toolkit for D that works with, say, Win, Linux, and
Mac?

Thanks heaps,
Billy

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Billy wrote:

 Hello, can I use D on Windows and create an executable file that will run
 on the Mac as well? And if yes, do I need Apple's libraries? Can I
 download them off the web? Any step-by-step tutorial available?


If you use GDC (and thus GCC) it should be able to build a 
cross-compiler, but I'm not sure that's enough to build from
Windows (cygwin) to Mac OS X (darwin) ? No tutorials yet, AFAIK.

For the low-level libraries, Apple do provide the source code...
Things like Carbon, Cocoa and Quicktime aren't available, though.
But the Darwin portion is at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

--anders

PS. You could just provide the source code, or get someone else
     to compile it into a library for you ? Might be easier. :-)

Def <Def_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <dcj3e5$f3e$1 digitaldaemon.com>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= says...

For the low-level libraries, Apple do provide the source code...
Things like Carbon, Cocoa and Quicktime aren't available, though.
But the Darwin portion is at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/


In theory (i.e. I haven't tested this myself), if you use GTK 1.x you could
let the users of your program download the GTK+OSX port.
http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/
Then setup a cross compiler with PPC/MacOS as a target and compile your
source code. The resulting program is likely to look GTK type instead of
Mac native, but still usable. As I said, *in theory* it *might* work.
(Anyone tried this?)

PS. You could just provide the source code, or get someone else
     to compile it into a library for you ? Might be easier. :-)


I'm sure it would!

Def