[vorbis-dev] win32 question

[Chris Hanson]

At 1:13 PM -0500 2/19/01, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>How about mac?  I know nothing about
>Macs and their compilers.  Darwin compiles can use configure, I assume,
>but I also assume that there are other relevant mac compilers that
>can't/won't use configure.

You can't use configure at all on the classic Mac OS, because it 
isn't Unix and doesn't have a Unix-clone command line environment. 
(MPW doesn't count; it's superficially similar but in practice it's 
very different.)

The mainstream Macintosh compiler and development environment is 
Metrowerks CodeWarrior.  It's a (very nice, IMO) fully graphical 
environment; there's no underlying command line or makefile system. 
The Macintosh support I added to Vorbis was built with CodeWarrior 
Pro 5.3; I have CodeWarrior Pro 6.1 now, and have been thinking about 
upgrading the Vorbis support (and checking out what's changed since I 
last touched it).

Just make sure it's possible to build the source base without running 
configure, perhaps by setting a preprocessor variable or two, and 
everything will be cool.

Speaking of Macs, I've been thinking lately about how to handle 
Carbon and Mac OS X support.  Should the Vorbis and Ogg libraries be 
turned into bundles so they can be accessed from both CFM and Mach-O 
binaries?  Should there just be two sets of libraries, one for each 
runtime architecture?  Or is there some way we can build a framework 
for Mac OS X and a Carbon shared library for the classic Mac OS and 
have things just work?

   -- Chris


-- 
Chris Hanson <cmh at bDistributed.com>
bDistributed.com: Making Business Distributed

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