[gtkada] mac gnat

[Roy M. Bell]

Thomas De Contes wrote:

>
> Le jeudi 10 janvier 2002, à 12:57 , Roy M. Bell a écrit :
>
>> Preben Randhol wrote:
>>
>>> Thomas De Contes <deContes at iFrance.com> wrote on 08/01/2002 (20:42) :
>>>
>>>> can i use gtkada on mac os x ? ( http://www.adapower.net/macos/ )
>>>
>>>
>>> You will need gtk for mac, check http://www.macgimp.org/ about progress
>>> on the porting.
>>>
>>> Preben
>>>
>>
>> My impression is that the port of GTK to the Mac is reasonably good. 
>> The main problem is that version of GNAT for the Mac is still in 
>> alpha stage. In particular it doesn't yet support tasking. I would be 
>> very surprised if all of gtkada can be compiled by the "non-tasking" 
>> subset.
>
>
> thank you
> i would do many tests, but if you tell me it runs, i know i must have 
> success !
> is gtk already on macintoshs ?
> if not, what is given by apple and why gtk has been made ? (if someone 
> knows)



The macgimp web site listed above indicates that there are people 
working on porting GTK directly to the Apple GUI. This would indeed be a 
great enhancement. In the mean time you might find that versions of GTK 
running on top of a port of X-widows for the Mac will be more stable.

Neither X-window nor GTK are provided by Apple. You should be able to 
find everything you need on the macgimp web site listed above. A quick 
glance indicates there are two open source implementations called "X on 
X" and "Fink". There is also implementation that you can purchase from 
Tennon. Again the macgimp web site is an excellent web site for this 
information.

-- Roy