From: Luigi Ballabio <luigi.ballabio@...>
Date: 2001-03-19T19:48:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12858] Porting to Mac possible?


Hi all,
	I started playing with Ruby on my Linux and WinNT boxes at work, and I 
quite enjoy the language. The problem now is, I also have a Mac at home. 
You can go ahead and laugh :)
I know it would not be easy to port the thing as a full-fledged Mac 
application. I also saw that progress has been made for porting Ruby to 
Darwin/Mac OS X. However, it is a little known fact that an application 
exist (MPW, i.e., Macintosh Programmer Workshop) which is freely 
downloadable from Apple and which does provide the classic Mac OS with a 
command-line environment. Namely, command-line applications can be compiled 
and run from within MPW - indeed, quite a few GNU apps were ported such as 
diff/patch, bison, flex... I ported SWIG myself to MPW with very little 
problems (by the way, did anybody try SWIG - http://swig.sourceforge.net/ - 
with Ruby? But I guess I'll keep this for another thread).
Now, I can volunteer as little time as I can - not much, considering that 
on one hand, I don't have a Mac at work, and on the other hand, I do have a 
wife and a son at home :) - for trying and start to work on it.
The problem is, I am not quite fluent enough in autoconf/automake to see 
what kind of configuration I should be hand-making before trying to compile 
the thing, or what files I should or should not try to compile.
Is anybody willing to jump-start me on it?

Thanks in advance,
                      Luigi