[openbeos] Re: Getting started

do I smell a newsletter article ?

- Sikosis

Quoting Scott Mansfield <thephantom@xxxxxxx>:

> I've been frustrated by this as well, especially during development of 
> the Network kit (which seemed especially sensitive to compiler versions 
> for some unknown reason).  When I first started with the project I had 
> to drill through the newsletters archive to find out what was required 
> for OBOS development (issue 13, "So, you wanna be an OBOS developer", 
> IIRC).  IM[not so]HO, it would behoove us to document a set of minimum 
> requirements for the toolchain somewhere on our site and in a more 
> prominent place, maybe on the "Dev Central" page.  Better yet, perhaps 
> we could include a download link on said page for the complete 
> toolchain (including the updated cvs, ld, and jam stuff), that way 
> we're all using the same set of development tools (?).  Standards are a 
> good thing sometimes.  :-)
> 
> For whatever it's worth I've been using the BeOS Max 3 beta 2 and am 
> quite happy with it.  Vasper has done a really good job in maintaining 
> this distro.
> 
> Just my two bits, not trying to stir up trouble.
> 
> Cheers,
> Scott
> 
> On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 19:12 America/Los_Angeles, Andrew Bachmann 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:23:44 -0400 EDT "Jared Eldredge" <jared@xxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> >> David
> >> i believe that gcc 2.95.3 is the right compiler.  OBOS uses JAM for 
> >> its
> >> build system and you should probably have some software for that as
> >> well.
> >
> > No,
> >
> > Please do not use gcc 2.95.3.  It seems you are looking at an older 
> > version
> > of BeOS MAX since they have (AFAIK) corrected this oversight in the
> > current version.  Use either the gcc included in R5 (from 1999) or the
> > geekgadgets gcc. (from 2000, version 2.9-beos-000224)  If they still 
> > have
> > not fixed the BeOS MAX "distro" then you can still install it and 
> > install
> > one of the working compilers over it.  (or just switch to the other
> > compiler if it turns out to be bundled with it as well)
> >
> >> could someone with more experience please reply for David with a list
> >> of the software tools required/useful for diving into the code base?
> >
> > As it was mentioned earlier, you can find all of the open-beos specific
> > tools at this page: http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/dev.php
> > Please note that you will have to remake the jam from cvs after you do
> > a checkout.  You can do this by running the web jam in the tools 
> > subdir.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> 
>

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