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Bolkonskij
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Reply #15 on: January 14, 2024, 10:47
I hereby testify  Tried my luck too but gave up pretty quickly after acquiring the sources from Max. Knezzen really spent some considerable time to get this to compile. It'd definitely be cool to save this one from oblivion, especially since it's still useful today. (using bitlebee) |
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lauland
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512 MB  Posts: 674 Symtes 7 Mewconer!
Reply #16 on: January 14, 2024, 16:51
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Yeah, I don't know how useful those mutant cw's are without the libs...I'm going to tackle rebuilding those! I've got Golaith PPC building with CW8. It turns out most of the trouble was with openssl. So I'm going to export the projects and try importing them into CW6 (non-mutant) and change the targets to m68k... Jabbernaut: It looks like the prj you were using was Jabbbernaut all.mcp, right, because there's a partial m68k build? There's definitely a header problem there because it's trying to include a Windows header! And you're using what's in Dependencies.sit inside the Sources folder right? (and not the one outside). Let me know your exact setup so I can reproduce it.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #17 on: January 15, 2024, 06:56
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Meekly following all of your amazing programming adventures  much of it sounds both scary and and fun!
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #18 on: January 15, 2024, 10:54
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Quote from: lauland Jabbernaut: It looks like the prj you were using was Jabbbernaut all.mcp, right, because there's a partial m68k build? There's definitely a header problem there because it's trying to include a Windows header! And you're using what's in Dependencies.sit inside the Sources folder right? (and not the one outside). Trying to remember, I haven't really messed with this for a year or so. I think I used the deps from within the project folder, since that's what the original author did. It's hella messy the whole project and I never got it near compiling to be honest, always 1.5k of warnings and errors of missing header files despite it looking like most stuff should be in place. I gave up, more or less. Would be cool to get some kind of working project setup, so I can start writing some actual code for once 
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #19 on: January 15, 2024, 11:44
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Quote from: knezzen missing header files despite it looking like most stuff should be in place Yes, I remember that one. For whatever reason it wouldn't recognize the files despite them being physically (!) there in the folder. After some digging, it appeared to be some CW bug when transferring projects from one Mac to another. However, re-adding everything from scratch didn't help either. (new project, copy + paste from old files into new ones) The package as-is contains everything the original author had left of it, he actually managed to salvage it from an old dying HDD as he told me. If you can get this to compile @lauland, you'll definitely deserve the "CodeWarrior veteran" award
Last Edit: January 15, 2024, 11:46 by Bolkonskij
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #20 on: January 15, 2024, 18:51
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I just remembered this one, but not sure it qualifies as 'low-hanging' fruit: a Classic 68k-PPC e-pub reader; of course I totally expect users to unzip their e-pubs first so the Classic reader can access an e-pub's enclosed HTML files directly! As to what source code is out there that would be best to use for this I haven't the faintest idea since e-pubs came out so much later than Mac Classic software, but if any Classic web browser (maybe like Navigator?) ever released it's source-code, there may be some possibility there. Elsewise, a Classic text-based browser might give way to a more basic reader (again, if those have available source code?) The results would likely be very basic, but basic is a really cool retro-start!
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lauland
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512 MB Posts: 674 Symtes 7 Mewconer!
Reply #21 on: January 15, 2024, 21:39
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Jabbernaut: It looks like there is an m68k 5.5 version in macintoshgarden, so I'm guessing these sources are for 5.6 or a newer (the last?) version, right?
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lauland
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512 MB Posts: 674 Symtes 7 Mewconer!
Reply #22 on: January 15, 2024, 21:45
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Oh, derp, just found this thread where you're talking about Jabbernaut, guess we should continue talking about it there and just talk about low hanging fruit here! https://system7today.com/forums/index.php?topic=3532.0
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #23 on: January 17, 2024, 04:19
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No worries, Lauland!  Jabbernaut is a wonderful chat program and getting it working right would be awesome, so it may fit the bill of low-hanging fruit  An interesting thought came to mind as far as the epub reader idea, but as often happens with my silly mind, I could be looking at oranges to apples here; as I understand it from what I remember reading on the Wikipedia Reader site or read me, I think the program goes through an online proxy of some kind in order to display it's search links and results, so it is more of a front-end middle-man text-rendering program (which for it's size, is a beautiful thing! My though then was this: would it's source code work a little as far as a launchpad to build an epub reader based on how it's built? I'd imagine the proxy thing could be either chucked altogether and just use the rendering window! Of course there's the whole part of making sense of the epub formatting itself, although it could just be one very long page to start off with! Now possibly, and I hope this makes sense, but just possibly, if the proxy portion of the Wikipedia Reader could be repurposed somehow, it could work with a local LAN server (on a newer Mac, hopefully? ) to serve unzipped epubs to the reader and the search option could look-up titles hsted on the server? I've set-up Kuboo to read epubs and pdfs from my personal library and even managed to follow steps to skin it to looook like Plex, but theere may be a real neat application there if these pieces aren't too far off the target Yikes! So much for this one being a low-hanging fruit!
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