Re: [Q] Porting StepTalk to Mac OS X(ObjC Runtime Compatibility)

[Alex Perez]

Sungjin Chun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've try to build StepTalk on Mac OS X using Cocoa framework. And I 
> found that StepTalk depends on GNU ObjC Runtime and this makes porting 
> somewhat hard.
> Now, here comes the first question:
> 1. In StepTalk code sel_register_typed_name, but Mac OS X or NeXT ObjC 
> runtime does not have this one, instead, it has sel_register_name only. 
> Can I use this function instead of GNU's one?
> 2. +[NSMethodSignature signatureWithObjCType:] is used in StepTalk and I 
> found that this method is Cocoa.framework although hidden. Can I use 
> same argument for this method, ie., type is compatible?
Please contact stefan urbanek immediately, at stefan@agentfarms.net. He 
is the current StepTalk maintainer, and is desperately looking for 
someone to finish my port of StepTalk to OS X. You can grab the (sort-of 
functional) source from my website at 
http://rocko.paploo.net/~aperez/GNUstep/StepTalk-CVS-9Nov2004.tar.bz2 . 
Note that make install will not work yet, you need to manually install 
the components into /Library/Frameworks and the bundles to 
/Library/StepTalk/Bundles or wherever they're supposed to go. The 
resources aren't inside the framework yet.

It's been a while since I've worked on this, as you can probably tell 
from the date on that tarball, but I'm willing to try and answer any 
questions about my aborted porting effort if you have any.

Cheers,
Alex Perz