Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 10:07:28 06/11/05
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On June 11, 2005 at 12:55:24, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: >On June 11, 2005 at 07:49:48, Andreas Guettinger wrote: > >>As announced last week the Macs will move to the Intel processor in the next 2 >>years. >>Does the change of the cpu and the availability of an IntelC/C++ compiler for >>Mac OS X simplify porting chess programs to the Mac? Will we see more engines >>coming to the Mac platform? >> >>I guess Stefan is also porting the Shredder Classic Interface to OS X, which >>would mean the major part of his work was not in vain once the transition to >>Intel cpus is finished. >> >>Congrats to Shredder >>Andy > >Well, for me i can say, its not difficult to port a chessprogram from x86 to MAC >OS X if the programmer only use ansi c stuff and no special windows or others >plattform sdk stuff. At least i needed two hours for my engine to make it >running on a G5 iBook with MAC OS 10.3. And this was really my first contact >with a Apple. > >Now i like Apple ;) > >daniel I'm glad you like it. :) I really like Xcode as a developper IDE. That's why I write almost all my code on the Mac, also if I run soem of it later on the amd64. For chess and bioinformatik stuff ANSI C is all I ndeed, no fany GUIs. Even though Xcode is great, it means going with gcc. The availability of an IntelC/C++ compiler end of the year maybe attracts programmers using the Intel compiler on PC to try a mac port of their engines. regards Andy
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