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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
Last call for VICE MacOS devs
For the last time I'll be asking if anyone with any MacOS knowledge can step up and help with VICE development.
Right now the whole MacOS mess is in danger of being completely ignored from now on, or even deleted.
What we require are (obviously) devs with knowledge of MacOS; knowledge of either SDL2 or Gtk3 is nice, but not required, we can help with that.
Basically, my VICE mailing list post says it all:
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Hello fellow devs, and hopefully people who know something about MacOS,
After constantly running into horseshit when it comes to Gtk3 on MacOS (and MacOS in general), I'm once again asking for people with knowledge of MacOS (ie not me) to step up and help out with the Gtk3 MacOS port.
There are a lot of issues to fix with Gtk3 on MacOS, and my knowledge is very lacking when it comes to MacOS. So as it stands now, Gtk3 on MacOS is stillborn and will remain so. I'm already working on Gtk3 on Linux and Windows (another system I despise and which we also don't have any active devs for), so I'm personally done with MacOS.
So in short: unless we get some devs who actually want to put in some work (complaining on IRC about how shitty this or that is, and then doing nothing about it, doesn't count), MacOS users can use SDL2 and like it, though apparently make bindist for MacOS SDL doesn't work either :)
Most likely having completely wasted my time and bandwidth, sincerely,
Compyx
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1987 |
Quote: right now the rendering isnt even the biggest problem. that is "just" slow - but at least it works :)
I just checked the bug tracker and the bugs related to Mac OS X were few actually. What are the major problems in your opinion other than sluggish rendering and non-deterministic build system? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11100 |
for example the file-open dialog just crashes :) and indeed, the build system. and the binary packaging. etc
(no bugs reported? LOOOOOOOL. yeah that means a lot. especially for macOS, where we have all those people testing things =D)
regarding GL - there will be wrappers that map GL to metal, i am pretty sure. without them macOS will just fade away, or at least will become largely irrelevant for everyone developing software that isnt macOS exclusive. (you already noted autodesk pulled the trigger, i guess. others will follow) |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1987 |
Quote: for example the file-open dialog just crashes :) and indeed, the build system. and the binary packaging. etc
(no bugs reported? LOOOOOOOL. yeah that means a lot. especially for macOS, where we have all those people testing things =D)
regarding GL - there will be wrappers that map GL to metal, i am pretty sure. without them macOS will just fade away, or at least will become largely irrelevant for everyone developing software that isnt macOS exclusive. (you already noted autodesk pulled the trigger, i guess. others will follow)
Right ok. Thanks for the insights. Regarding GL you’re absolutly right and bothing to worry about (and as you said the slowness today in not even a show stopper) |
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oziphantom
Registered: Oct 2014
Posts: 478 |
when they move to the ARM based Macs will be the point they did most of the old stuff and kill most of the translation layers etc. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11100 |
lol, wont happen in the near future :) |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1987 |
Quote: when they move to the ARM based Macs will be the point they did most of the old stuff and kill most of the translation layers etc.
Stop derailing the thread plz |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1627 |
I don't have the time required to participate in actual coding, and I don't really have much knowledge about macOS coding in general, but since I am a Mac owner I could possibly help with some minor testing every now and then. |
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Compyx
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 631 |
We can also use testers, definitely.
Unfortunately right now the bindist script is at a point where it's still incomplete, a few things such as Gtk3 themes/icons aren't copied properly, nor is the vice.gresource file copied anywhere, leading to failure to load logos, icons and custom fonts. And also causing things using/based on GtkFileChooser to fail due to missing schema files, ie: Attach Disk will fail :) |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1987 |
Quote: We can also use testers, definitely.
Unfortunately right now the bindist script is at a point where it's still incomplete, a few things such as Gtk3 themes/icons aren't copied properly, nor is the vice.gresource file copied anywhere, leading to failure to load logos, icons and custom fonts. And also causing things using/based on GtkFileChooser to fail due to missing schema files, ie: Attach Disk will fail :)
First of all, as I've said before, I'll take a look in creating a stable build environment. Right now I'm looking into vagrant and setting up a virtual mac os that contains a clear build system with gtk3+ build from scratch etc.
I had this up and running on my work computer but then after tainting it with "something" nothing builds anymore. So it's critical to get this up and running first before fixing the rest.
The bindist script is just a matter of putting some hours into it. I can't image it will be hard to get the correct files to be copied to their respective places. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11100 |
i think you will learn that its quite a hazzle actually =P |
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