[haiku-development] Re: Buildutils on powerpc

  • From: "Duane Ryan" <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:22:31 -0400

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:07 PM, richard jasmin <jasminr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> crtstuff has known issues, ive used the pascal/delphi variant of it a few
> years back.try ncurses libs.
> endianness i think flips on ppc.compile for 32bit, on less than ppc g5.

Endianess is flipped for all powerpc machines; they have a wimpy
'compatability mode' that is, essentially, worthless. And I'm afraid
of poking around the code too much before I've compiled it and its
stable.

> ncurses replaces crt routines for *NIX, as they are implemented differently
> than by the ways of dos.
> this may be a cross-tools or haiku thing, not somehting you put in there to
> use, just keep it in mind.
>
> however, it looks like you are missing a header file, the error is
> 'undefined symbols'.usually means a required library is missing(.so or a).i
> get it sometimes with C (++)programs.
>
> you have both C and (++) support installed, right? maybe you need the kernel
> headers installed, not sure.

I just followed instructions. However, I'm pretty sure this is a parse
error; that kind of error is typical of a missed include or
something...

> does seem odd that dos mode routines are being used under
> *NIX.posix-compliant uses ncurses, its almost the same, some routines are
> different.gives the equivalent of TVision for unix  from the days of TP6
> from dos.
>
> I would love to get my hands on ncurses in pascal structure, cant find it
> for either GNU or FreePascal on OSX and the app i was working on required
> gotoxy() and bgcolor() and fgcolor() [or equivalent] working correctly.due
> to this issue it failed to redraw the screen in a terminal correctly and I
> was left with garbage on screen redraws.I couldnt get a rough cut of a cocoa
> or carbon app with QDraw text to a output window working, so I gave up.
> the app works better in command-line mode, as its a micro-os like enviroment
> attempted to simulate the entire LCARS backend.[not some demo or somebody's
> alarm-clock, an actual working database]
>
> my knowledge of C stems better from python, which is poorly implemented on
> the MAC.
> albeit I run ubuntu often, but still.....

I actually like mac's python implementation—leopard comes with 10.5
and a cocoa bridge by default. It's pretty nice. But the actual
implementation is rock solid... it's not as if it differs much (at
all, really?) from linux or *bsds...

> seriously does look like an outdated sub-routine, though.
> --------
> Duane Ryan wrote:
>>
>> So,  i've been rather bored recently; I figure, why not try and get
>> haiku running on my mac? How hard can it be?
>>
>> So, I attempted to build crossutils using `./configure
>> --build-cross-tools-gcc4 ppc ../buildtools/`, as per Ryan's tutorial
>> for ubuntu linux. After chugging along for a few hours (I have a slow
>> machine), it fails, for reasons I can't really comprehend. Full errors
>> are in the attachment.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> -duane
>>
>
>
>



-- 
Duane Ryan Bailey

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