Author: Daniel Mehrmannn
Date: 11:32:12 06/11/05
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On June 11, 2005 at 13:07:28, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >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 Well, I really don't know this operating system. So i used the "vim" editor and a installed gcc on the console for the first backport. I didn't needed more, or as better explanation, i don't know other programs at this time. But now i'm enjoying Xcode too. Its great that the gcc compiler is available for MAC OS X. This made the things really very easy B) greetings daniel
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