[haiku] Re: Team Haiku
- From: "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:26:42 -0800
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Joseph Prostko <trasnam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:45 AM, François Vincent <batuque@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like just to make an ad for the Team Haiku. If you are interested
>> about Distributed Computing, join us ! www.teamhaiku.com
>>
>> Unfortunately, we have to use the BOINC client for Windows or Linux.
>> If someone could compile it for Haiku, it would be great (gcc4
>> required).
>
> Is this as trivial as a recompile, or is it more along the lines of a
> port? Even a non-GUI version would be nice for those of us that run a
> GCC4 or hybrid Haiku build. I can't say I spend much time in other
> OS's lately, other than to rebuild Haiku, so the clients for other
> OS's don't do me a ton of good.
It does require GCC3+ according to their requirements. I had
considered trying to cross-compile it from a GCC4 haiku build env at
least once, but I haven't ever found the time to do so. It's pretty
likely that some porting effort will be required - don't expect a
simple recompile ;) The GUI client version would require wxWidgets, or
possibly a completely separate natively-written front-end. I don't
consider this a necessity at this point.
The BOINC client alone is only part of the puzzle (albiet, an
important part!), once that is done you'll still need to port the
applications written by each project to Haiku as well. You can likely
start with SETI as the application sources for it are open as well,
but many projects keep their source closed.
Anyone wishing to port distributed computing apps, please send me a
note - I'd love to work with you and track any progress being made on
behalf of Team Haiku.
- Urias
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