This files contains porting notes for various platforms submitted by scli users. Note that this information is not updated regularily - if in doubt, ask on the scli mailing list. MacOS X 10.1.1 (aka Darwin 5.1) on a PowerBook G4 ================================================= 1. Copied the newest 'config.guess' and 'config.sub' to the build directory, so that the configure script would recognize the OS release (which is 'powerpc-apple-darwin5.1'). This would of course be fixed by using the latest autoconf package also. 2. Installed glib, libxml (these are not normally included with a basic installation of OS X). Instead of building these libs myself, I used the automated tool 'fink' (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) to download, compile, and install the latest versions - this is quite a useful tool. 3. Installed the readline library using fink also. However, for some reason the configure script will find the glib and libxml in the location where fink puts its installations (/sw/...) but does not find readline in the same location. To temporarily fix this, I put symlinks under /usr/lib to point to /sw/lib/libreadline.*. After this step, configure found libreadline with no problems. 4. One final thing : Added -no-cpp-precomp to the CFLAGS in all Makefiles of the project. For some reason the standard Apple precompiler doesn't compile all code properly with the precompiled headers (this is referenced at http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/basics.php). Everything built fine after the above steps and it works quite well. Shiloh Heurich <shiloh@comtechmobile.com>