Carbonizing Mac Xconq

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By the way, the Forte 6 C++ compiler won't compile Xconq.  The type conversions in the obstack code fail.  Possibly because it's ISO compliant rather than ANSI?  The C compiles fine, as long as you use the -xCC option to allow C++ style comments.



 --- On Wed 10/16, Hans Ronne  wrote:
From: Hans Ronne [mailto: hronne@telia.com]
To: shebs@apple.com
     Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:56:36 +0200
Subject: Re: Carbonizing Mac Xconq

> >Amazingly enough, I have a work-related reason to consider Carbonizing
> >Mac Xconq (Apple only works on OS X now, as you may have heard :-) ).
> >I started on it over a year ago, and got it to the point of getting
> >a splash screen up and then crashing, but didn't continue with it.
> >Has anybody - I guess that means Hans :-) - spent any time on
> >Carbonizing the Mac interface?
> 
> I started on it back in January, but stopped pretty soon, since I gave a
> higher priority to fixing the network code and the Windows code. I can
> send
> you the files if you want but you would probably be better off starting
> fresh, or using the files you hacked yourself. There has been quite a few
> changes in the Mac interface in the last year, but nothing dramatic.
> Mostly
> bug fixes and minor tweaks.
> 
> Hans
> 
> P.S. The Mac interface is not yet C++ compatible, either. Ed, who did
> this
> for the rest of xconq had no way of handling the Mac code. I started on
> this and checked in some C++ compatibility fixes, but the conversion has
> not been completed yet.
> 
> 
> 

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