Ports?

[MeanGoat]

I've been busy compiling my favorite unix apps and I'm wondering if there is a ports effort going on anywhere.
I think most users are going to want binaries all packaged up for them.

[xJ3D]

Would that include the "Gimp" ?

[MeanGoat]

One day hopefully. Getting the gtk libs ported will be the fun part, if possible.

No, currently I have been doing all CLI.

[ruffkess]

Is there any way that someone could post these binaries for those who don't have the developer tools?

It really would be a huge help

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ruffkess
G4 450
256 megs of Ram
20 Gig Firewire Drive

[xJ3D]

MeanGoat.... How about SAMBA

Seeing how OSXPB will not "Currently Work" with NT services for Macintosh.. it would really help

[MeanGoat]

I believe I saw a port already of samba over at http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=3886

I'm just going to start posting binaries over at versiontracker.

By the way, installing the developer tools is not that difficult you can get them from http://www.darwinos.org though if I remember it is a good download 150M I think, pull the developer tools off of that and start compiling. Compiling code to work on darwin is not that hard either.

http://www.macaddict.com/content/news/2000/09/13/18709 has an article describing how to install the developer tools.

I recommend anyone who wants to expand there knowledge a little try and go out and compile something from source, it's not as hard and scary as most people think.

Example: One of my favorite tools, nmap.

Step 1: Find nmaps homepage, I choose to use http://www.freshmeat.net for this.

Step 2: Download source tarball.

Step 3: untar the tar ball.

Step 4: change directory and run ./configure

Step 5: make

Oops, crashy, looks like I don't have the libm, the math library installed. Using sherlock I locate libm on the Darwin OS image. I copy it over and register it.

Step 5: Bingo!

Do some testing, but more or less nmap was just ported, I now have a binary that I can give to people.

[froody]

I would really love it if someone could port XMMS or X MultiMeda System, it's a really great MP3 encoder/decoder, and has support for Vorbis (www.vorbis.com) which is a great substitute for MP3.
Also, I'd love to see Bochs (X86 emu) get ported to OSX, then there'd be nothing stopping the mac!!!!!

[dominiqued]

http://www.darwinos.org/Apps/WebObjects/Softrak