to Mac OS programmers

[tomek-k]

Hi.
I've noticed that there are some programmers from Mac community on this forum.

I have a question to them - is there the GNU build system available for Mac systems?? The "configure - make" thing.
Is it possible to just download some source tarball that uses this build system and just build the program on Mac OS?

I have a little project in C++ and I would like to know if it is possible to build it and run it under Mac OS/Mac OSX.

[TinMan]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
These should answer some of your questions. The code usually has to be modified a little to run on Mac OSX, especially if it has a GUI.

[tomek-k]

Thanks for the answer.
As I've understood from what I've read on the given sites, there is some software that helps porting programs written for UNIX-like systems to Mac.
But I don't owe a Mac, (and am not even willing to... ), so I can't try that out, but if I understand - the software contains tools for building programs that use GNU build system, am I right?

My project is a game that doesn't use any GUI libraries.
It uses only SDL and OpenGL, so im pretty sure that the code should be compatible with Mac (however there may be some problems with OpenGL API - it is a bit different under linux and under windows for example).

And maby there are some people who would like to help me in creating Mac binaries of my program? :wink:
It's GPL'd of course

[gareth]

http://www.idevgames.com/forum/

[tomek-k]

thanks for the link!
I'll try in there