2009/02/16

no GDL2 on macports

I was able to install all dependencies of GDL2, but GDL2 it self... macports was unable to load it from nowhere...
also, I'd try to run an app from gnustep (Grom to be precise) and it simply did not started...

...all this GNUstep thing was driving me crazy, so I went to my office at ENSA and start all over, but in my Tiger Server (10.4.11)... there the history was completely different: instead of using macports, I downloaded directly from GNUstep ftp server gnustep-make, gnustep-base and gnustep-dl2, apply a couple of patches provided by Adam Fedor (Mil Gracias ;^) and now GDL2 is installed...

NeXT Step: learn how to integrate it with Cocoa...

2009/02/15

gcc42 done...

Finally, I got the desired:
---> Staging gcc42 into destroot
---> Installing gcc42 @4.2.4_1+darwin_7
---> Activating gcc42 @4.2.4_1+darwin_7
---> Cleaning gcc42
Fermat:/opt/local/var/macports sa$


In the meanwhile I found the following comment on the web:
>> ---> Building gcc42 with target all
>>
>> So all is going well until this line showed up and is taking absolute
>> age....what should I do? should I terminate it and try again?
>
> gcc42 takes about 6 hours to compile on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4, so
> on your 1 GHZ PowerBook G4 I would expect it to take about 9 hours.
> You should also have at least 3GB of free hard drive space.

So, in my 400 MHz PowerBook G3 I supposed it will take forever... but it took just a finite amount of time!

Today I will try to end the installation of GDL2...

2009/02/14

GNUstep DL2

At the same time I am trying ARJDatabase in the office, I am trying to install GNUstep-DL2 into my PowerBook; however, several errors had occurred —I wonder why all these open projects are so difficult to make...

One needed step is to install gcc42 (I am using macports for that) but it hangs, for hours, while it displays
--->  Building gcc42

... so far, I'd just found the following comment which encourages me to wait until tomorrow before killing the cc1 process running behind the scene...
(a ticket of macports)

2009/02/09

OpenSource EOF

So long without writing here... but this nightmare took me too much of my time...
In the meantime I had been learning and applying the so called DNA Computing; interesting , but not the aim of these lines.

I found an open implementation of Apple's Objective-C EOF in SourceForge.net... it includes source for an EOModeler, for some Adaptors, and for the frameworks EOAccess and EOControl. Even I am missing the EOInterface layer, that may be replaced with Cocoa Bindings... hopefully!