[brailleblaster] Re: Native libraries for the Mac

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 11:33:02 -0600

Alex,

I don't remember what model my Mac is. I got it six years ago, and it's 
really big. 

On any platform you would have to assign a name to the embosser 
according to the OS. Hopefully, you can then type

java -jar brailleblaster.jar emboss inputfile embossername

John

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:36:32AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Which model of PPC Mac is it?
> 
> On another note, does embosser support theoretically work on the Mac yet?
> 
> Regards,
> Alex,
> 
> 
> On 2011-02-07, at 8:33 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Alex,
> > 
> > The Intel libraries will be fine for now. My own Mac is a Power-PC with 
> > the latest Leopard and xcode. Maybe I'll see if I can compile the 
> > libraries on it.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:40:59AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> >> Hi john,
> >> 
> >> I can probably send you the Intel ones tonight, but the PPC ones will have 
> >> to wait for about a week, until I can get my PowerMac G4 back up and 
> >> running with XCode. I din't think I have hte developer tools installed on 
> >> it.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Alex,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 2011-02-07, at 5:05 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Alex, could you send me your ports of liblouis liblouisutdml and libxml2 
> >>> as attachments offlist. The embosser code is nearly ready for testing. 
> >>> Once it is, I will be able to make a release for the Mac that can be run 
> >>> from the terminal. After testing it can be put into your app bundle.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> John
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> >>> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> >>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> >>> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> >>> Developing software for people with disabilities
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> > 
> > 
> 

-- 
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities


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