After flunking a high school test, Yogi Berra was asked by his
teacher, "Don't you know anything?" He replied, "I don't even suspect
anything."
Here is what I suspect about GT.M and Mac OS X.
GT.M uses varargs for functions with variable arguments. varargs is
pre ANSI C and is not supported by current releases of gcc. stdarg is
the way ANSI C handles variable arguments. I've been letting Xcode
and its predecessors hold my hand for so long I'm hesitant to attempt
to install an older version of gcc along with the required header
files for fear of upsetting the current toolset. However there is a
stdarg patch for GT.M V5.0-000C for x86 on sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11026&atid=311026
The build process looks for an existing GT.M mumps compiler to
preprocess some files. Of course the build fails at this point. This
was discussed a little while ago and following Bhaskar's hint (by my
recollection) I built GT.M on linux and collected the files generated
by mumps and copied them to the Mac OS X machine, and the build
proceeded... until...
The assembler complained about the x86 assembly language files.
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:13:Unknown pseudo-op: .title
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:13:Rest of line ignored.
1st junk character valued 99 (c).
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:14:Unknown pseudo-op: .sbttl
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:14:Rest of line ignored.
1st junk character valued 99 (c).
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:19:Unknown pseudo-op: .DATA
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:20:Unknown pseudo-
op: .extern
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:20:Rest of line ignored.
1st junk character valued 112 (p).
/Users/rkm/vista/gtm50/sr_i386/ci_restart.s:23:no such 386
instruction: `entry'
That's where I've left it for now.
I'm suspecting that when I pick this up again I will make an install
of Mac OS X just for this purpose (its easy enough with an external
drive) and install the gcc version that best matches GT.M.
-Ken McKee
On May 31, 2006, at 1:44 AM, chuck5566 wrote:
I've not had much luck in trying to port GT.M to OS X (Intel). (I
hadn't realized that the Continental Shelf was so close to shore.)
FWIW, I've started a thread on the forum for GT.M at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=34584
if anyone is interested. Seemed a more appropriate place for such
a discussion.
Chuck
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