[Gambas-user] A step forward in Gambas!

[richard terry]

On Friday 17 June 2011 10:47:39 John Spikowski wrote:
Do the webcam and movie playing/pdf examples work in the Mac?

Regards

Richard

> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 13:39 +0200, François Gallo wrote:
> > Hello the english community of Gambas,
> >
> >
> > I ported the Gambas 3 project to Mac OS X 10.6.
> > it works perfectly and all its components.
> >
> > Currently, there is only one component that makes problem, it's gb.sdl.
> > This is a detail that i will fix soon with Laurent Carlier (gb.sdl's
> > author).
> >
> > Of course, you won't get the gb.v4l component which is exclusively
> > reserved for the GNU/Linux operating system and very linked to its
> > kernel.
> >
> > If you use an earlier version (10.5), I can't confirm that the
> > compilation procedure will go fine. However, Mac OS X 10.7 upcoming and
> > i'll ensure the availability of Gambas on this new version.
> >
> >
> > Why is this port ?
> >
> > Just because my goals are to work on the portability of Gambas.
> > Thus making the independent development from operating system, and
> > provide to everyone this wonderful programming language developed by
> > Benoît Minisini.
> >
> >
> > Gambas is ported only on Mac OS X ?
> >
> > In the future, as the Benoît's answer, i would like to see it to others
> > operating systems. I don't stop here ! I currently on the FreeBSD port of
> > Gambas 3.
> >
> >
> > I develop in Gambas 2, and i've some projects in this version, Will you
> > port Gambas 2 as well ?
> >
> > my answer is willingly NO. Gambas 3 marks a step forward in its evolution
> > in the core (gambas' kernel) and its elements around.  (IDE,
> > components...)
> > I can only encourage you to port yours projects to Gambas 3 :) .
> >
> >
> > I am interested to port Gambas to other OS, do you work alone ?
> >
> > Any help is welcome! Free time is sometimes difficult to obtain, so the
> > development is slow. You can start one on your side. It's a nice training
> > to learn the compilation mechanics and understand how Gambas is made up !
> > :) .
> >
> >
> > Where can i download Gambas3 for Mac OS X ? Did you done a source tarball
> > ?
> >
> > No links are currently available.
> > Wait the time i make a package for Mac OS X.
> >
> > For source codes, it is currently not recommended.
> > Compiling Gambas on OS X ask to have a good development environment with
> > complex manipulations. Writing a "HOW-TO" file is in my todo list, but
> > you're advised that it's not my priority!
> >
> > Here is a screenshot showing the shrimp.
> > Story you have water in your mouth ;) .
> >
> > http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/445567GB3OSX.jpg
> >
> >
> > --
> > François Gallo
> 
> Any chance of a QT Cocoa version of OSX is the future?
> 
> 
> 
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