Re: [Swarm-Support] SWARM on OS X

[Bill Northcott]

Just keep watching this list. There will be an announcement in the next 
few days of a new set of MacOS X packages.  These install using Apple's 
normal package installer and come with basic instructions.

To use Swarm on any platform you need some understanding of 
C/Objective-C software development.  The library packages are simple to 
install, but then you have to write a model in the Swarm version of 
Objective-C (or Java).  Swarm does many thinks to make the process 
simpler, such as taking care of memory management but you still need a 
basic grasp of C and Objective-C.

There are a ton of books and tutorials on C, and the Swarm web site has 
links to Objective-C and Swarm resources.  Avoid any books about Cocoa 
on MacOS X.  Cocoa and Swarm are different dialects of Objective-C and 
reading about Cocoa will confuse you.  Since Swarm uses a lot of the 
GNU support in MacOS X, books on Linux tend to be helpful, but be aware 
that shared libraries on the two platforms are quite different.

Bill Northcott

On 08/02/2005, at 7:49 AM, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> I am a complete newcomer to SWARM (and UNIX !), and would like to know 
> if anyone can recommend to me either a tutorial that is available, or 
> simply a help guide, that will help new users in my situation to 
> simply set up SWARM on our OS X sytems (bearing in mind that we get 
> confused by general UNIX speak...)