MacOS Tools

[Joel Sherrill]

Peer Stritzinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not responsible for these ports.
>
>   
I think James Houseley did them originally.
> However I'm working on MacOS and FreeBSD.  Currently I'm using FreeBSD
> for RTEMS development but always thought it would be a good to be able
> to use MacOS too.
>
> So if the MacOS tool port is orphaned, I could imagine to take it over
> or start a new one.
>
> MacPorts is IMHO a very good way to "package" the tools.
>
>   
Currently under rtems/contrib, there is an autoconf infrastructure
for building the RPM specifications.  Shouldn't it be possible to
also generate ports files in a similar manner with the same raw
information about tool versions and patches?

> In addition having *.dmg Mac Disk Images for installation would
> certainly be interesting
> for many users that don't know MacPorts.
>
>   
I'm completely ignorant here.  DMG looks like a disk image file
format similar to .iso files.  Do you just open them and drag the
contents to the hard disk?  Is there some other magic involved
that I am missing?

--joel
> -- Peer
>
>
> On 8/29/07, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was curious about how to package tools for MacOS and
>> went prowling on the web.  I knew about BSD ports but didn't
>> know about this site which has a lot of RTEMS ones
>>
>> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/cross
>>
>> Is someone on this list responsible for them?  They appear to
>> be old since the gcc is 3.2.3 and there is no mention of
>> rtems 4.7 or 4.8.
>>
>> I am hoping this provides a starting point for someone who
>> is interested in providing MacOS hosted RTEMS tools.
>>
>> --joel
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