Category: Mac

One annoying thing about Mac OS X…

is that although it has this great UNIX base that people always talk about (and which I appreciate much of the time), they didn't use the ubiquitous ELF and instead went with a proprietary object format called Mach-O This means...

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MacBook Pro

Nice. If I need a new laptop anytime soon, this may be the one that I get: MacBook Pro (Intel-based dual core Mac laptop)...

LegoMacProgramming

Peter G.’s Mindstorms blog

Peter Gammie, like myself, is blogging about Lego Mindstorms and in particular, brickOS and Mac OS X. Of particular interest is that he took the OS X USB support from leJOS and hacked it into brickOS's mangled dll (dynamic linker...

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Building brickOS tools on Mac OS X

Here's what I did (based on a combination of info at http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/ and The legOS HOWTO installation page) to build GNU binutils, gcc, and brickOS and associated tools on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with Xcode 2.2:...

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Quicksilver B47

A new version of Quicksilver, B47, is out. My Quicksilver popped up a message about it and offered to update, to which I said yes, and it did the whole download and update by itself without using a Web browser (which I like). The...

MacProgramming

Porting Command Line UNIX Tools to Mac OS X

This article is an interesting discussion of how Mac OS X differs from other Unices and what some of the considerations are when porting Unix software to Mac OS X. Some snippets of interest: dlopen, dlsym, dlclose, etc. not...

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G4 and G5 optimized builds of Firefox 1.5

G4 and G5 optimized builds of Firefox 1.5 Note that the app is called "Deer Park" and uses a different icon because only official Mozilla builds can carry the Firefox name and icon....