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virtual 1541 disk commander
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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OSX/Mac Verision #1

Open bluecursor opened 4 years ago

bluecursor commented 4 years ago

Looking for a OSX/Mac Version. Possible?

Zirias commented 4 years ago

Possible indeed, all the code is fairly portable with only a few "special paths" for Windows, assuming all other systems are more or less POSIX compliant, and as far as I know, MacOS X fullfills this. Qt (which is used for the GUI) is available for MacOS X.

Still I can't do it. I don't own a Mac, and Apple tries hard to force anyone wanting to build software for MacOS X to actually buy and use a Mac ...

Maybe some Apple user with programming and/or software building experience could help here. If you know someone, please establish contact with me, thanks :)

Until that (magically?) happens, try Wine. In my experiments on FreeBSD, V1541Commander for win32 works correctly in Wine, so I assume it does as well on MacOS X.

bluecursor commented 4 years ago

I tried with Wine app Called Crossover 19.0.1 on OSX Catalina. Setup.exe and uninstall.exe work file. Main App comes back with a "returned 1" error

Zirias commented 4 years ago

Do you by any chance run "Catalina"? If so, there isn't a solution at the moment: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=32590

With older versions of MacOS X, it should work. Just double checked with my 32bit wine 3.0.4 on FreeBSD, no problem.

Of course, a native MacOS X package would be great, and as I said, it should be possible, but I can't create one without owning a Mac :( I'll definitely leave this issue open. Maybe someone can help here!

bluecursor commented 4 years ago

That problem has been cracked: https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/10/31/announcing-a-first-alpha-build-of-crossover-19-for-macos-catalina

Setup.exe and uninstall.exe work file. Main App comes back with a "returned 1" error

Zirias commented 4 years ago

Well, "Crossover" shares (a lot of) code with wine, but isn't the same. And I read up on their solution for 32bit apps on Catalina, which seems to be a remarkable hack (so, great work), but I wouldn't count on it to get everything correct. Maybe the issue is just the wine version -- unfortunately, there is no newer 32bit wine version than the pretty old 3.0.4 available for FreeBSD yet, so I can't test that.

A possible workaround could be a 64bit Windows build, which might run in wine on Catalina. I don't have a cross-build environment for win64 right now, but could setup one (but it takes time). Still, even if this works, it's not a great solution -- and for Windows, a 64bit build has no advantage at all over the existing 32bit build.

In short: The only sensible way forward here is a native build of V1541Commander for OS X. As I said, I don't see how I can create such a build right now, and hope for help coming ;)

koimark commented 1 year ago

I wish I could have skills to made OS X build. Maybe I will try someday.

cwscws commented 1 year ago

Any news on a Mac version?

Zirias commented 1 year ago

Kind of. As already explained, I can't do it myself, but I got help now. There were a few code changes and it's now confirmed to build and run on Mac, but still needs a lot of hackery in the build system to achieve that, which turned out to be the bigger issue as MacOS has its very own mechanism for shared libraries .... here, many thanks to @Koston-0xDEADBEEF for help, testing, and suggesting changes!

I will need to find some time to review and properly integrate the changes to the build system needed for MacOS. Then, it could at least be used in e.g. MacPorts.

Koston-0xDEADBEEF commented 1 year ago

v1541commander_macos13.tar.gz

Here's binary of v1541commander and accompanying library - for macOS/arm64. Needs qt5-qtbase package from MacPorts.

Zirias commented 1 year ago

Thanks again @Koston-0xDEADBEEF, awesome! I really need the time to review/integrate your zimk changes, so ppl could at least easily build it for any architecture.

cwscws commented 1 year ago

Great news! Would be nice to make a .app for easy usage…

Koston-0xDEADBEEF commented 1 year ago

Great news! Would be nice to make a .app for easy usage…

After @Zirias is done restructing the zimk build system to support macOS, the v1541commander will be ported to MacPorts. Once that is done, various macOS-native binary distribution formats can be created with MacPorts builtin functionality.

cwscws commented 1 year ago

Best news today! 😀