Apple's Unix Porting Guide

hysterion writes "Just came across the nice Unix Porting Guide (pdf) posted by Apple earlier this month. Topics include NetInfo, using Project Builder with gnumake, autoconf, XFree86, Tcl/Tk, Qt ... it is a bit short on scripting languages, and they speak as if KDE were already ported, but other than that I found it an informative read." They also didn't mention fink, and they put "Unix" in all caps. However, they were honest about the shell scripting limitations of AppleScript, although they didn't mention that AppleScript -- especially via osascript -- is pretty buggy in Mac OS X right now (this is my annoyance of the week, so allow me to indulge myself).

Comments

Re:"As if KDE was already ported"?

[Ranger Rick]

Yeah, it's not 100% but we've got things mostly working. I've got screenshots (including KDE in rootless mode, very nice =) up at my web page.

Java porting guide

[pmorelli]

Here's a link on porting Java apps to Mac OS X, eg, menu bar issues, tweaks that don't break cross-platform compatibility but help the Mac experience. Pretty good.

Re:KDE + Darwin?

[Ranger Rick]

Yes it is possible, one of the other guys on our porting team has gotten it running, we're now working on incorporating those bits so it's reproducable. :)

That's one of the reasons we moved things over to OpenDarwin rather than keeping it just in Fink, is so the Darwin folks can take advantage of it as well...