[fluxus] porting 0.12 to osx

[Dave Griffiths]

> Hi
>
> I found some time to have a look at 0.12 on my power book
>
> As far as I can see it'll take me a couple of days to figure
> everything out again - my main concern is that I can't use my static
> linking tricks anymore because fluxus is split into a number of
> dynamicly loadable (PLT compatible?) modules. So I have to invent a
> "policy" on what should I put into fluxus osx distribution and what
> should I expect user to have installed (e.g. plt distribution).

Yes, but this policy should be the same as on Linux - i.e. the fluxus
package contains binary and scheme modules (installed in plt's collects
path), and a runtime application installed normally.

> At the moment I got as far as to have everything compiled on osx with
> a single `scons` invocation (except one bit that i #ifndef __APPLE__
> 'ed for now - the bit in gl file dialog which explicitly sais in the
> comments "// this is so linux specific").

:) is that the glob in ReadPath()? should be quite simple to fix.

> But now I have to figure our
> how to make plt scheme find fluxus modules, probably I'll have to
> switch from location independent application bundle to a package
> installer which will ask where plt scheme is installed.
>
> One thing though: the 'target' argument to env.SharedLibrary() call
> doesn't need the extension in it, the extension is platform specific
> ('.dylib' on darwin/osx, '.so' on linux). I'm changing it for existing
> modules now, but keep it in mind in the future.

Cheers - fwiw Dan Bethell got quite a long way with OSX porting, I'm not
sure if he ever committed his work, but you should probably talk to each
other (he's on list).

cheers,

dave