Porting to Mac OS X (10.6.8)

[jovanbulck]

things todo:

• change line 11 in the Makefile to start with a tab instead of spaces
• function getprompt:
  • line gethostname(hostname, HOST_NAME_MAX); results in make error "‘HOST_NAME_MAX’ undeclared". The POSIX specification doesn't seem to be very clear here. Changing to "_POSIX_HOST_NAME_MAX" compiles on Mac.
  • Install the GNU readline library using homebrew (http://brew.sh/): `brew install readline --> hisotry not working
  • Apparently MacOS didn't have strnlen on 10.6 and earlier. --> own version?
  • alias troubles? tail->next != NULL ??

[jovanbulck]

Conclusion: C programming on a Mac is terrible: no gcc, readline, libc basic functions are not included or not POSIX compliant. No good package manager, no good terminal emulator and the keyboard layout sucks too :(

[Wanimatrix]

Mac Porting is further discussed in this issue: #9