On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > Speaking of wxwidgets.... There's a partial port started called wxbeos, but last activity seems to have been Feb 2008: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/wxbeos-devtalk/2008-February/000011.html François you bored yet? ;) Last work appears to be fixing of the triple patched items. http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=8099 -scottmc