Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
- Subject: Re: Bochs - Free PC emulator
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:19:33 -0500
If you have the OS X Developer Tools, there is a program included
called PackageMaker. You can use it to make the packages very easily.
If you want to do it by hand, the PackageMaker app in Jaguar includes
some excellent documentation on the 10.2 package format.
However, you should first ask yourself this question: Is it necessary
to put files in places other than in the app's folder? You should check
whether you need to put files in places like /usr/local, /Library, etc.
If you don't, then it's better just to distribute the app's folder in a
.dmg disk image, and allow the user to install it via drag and drop. I
realize for a UNIX port, you may need to put files in the UNIX folders,
but I thought I'd put that in just in case you have "Macified" the app
enough that it is self-contained.
Charles
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:55 AM, oplusplus wrote:
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bochs 1.4-11 Cross platform IA-32 emulator
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 02:19 AM, Salter, Adam Q wrote:
I'm posting this here as I think there will be interested developers
subscribed, I realise it is a little off topic.
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A principle developer of Bochs (bochs.sourceforge.net) wrote to
OSXGNU-dev
recently with the following request:
Hi. I'm one of the leaders of the Bochs x86 Emulator project, and I'm
hoping that in our next release we can improve support for MacOS X.
Bochs is a portable PC emulator written in C++ that simulates the
entire
computer, including CPU, vga display, mouse, disks, and network.
While it
is not perfect, it is good enough to be able to boot Linux, Windows
95,
and many other OSes entirely in emulation. Bochs is open source
(LGPL)
and distributed for free on our website. See
http://bochs.sourceforge.net
for more information.
I would expect that Bochs would be very interesting to the Mac
community,
since I don't know of any other free, cross-platform x86 emulators.
For
example, Bochs is the foundation of OpenOSX.com's "WinTel for MacOS X
CD".
But I'm afraid that because we don't supply binary packages in a form
that
average MacOS X users can install, it is not accessible to the whole
user
community.
Would anyone be willing to show us how to put Bochs into a MacOS X
package? I can provide details about how to build the binary and what
files should go into the package. Also, pointers to other open source
software projects which build MacOS X packages in an automated way
(makefile or script) would be very helpful.
Please CC replies to me directly because I'm not subscribed.
Thanks,
Bryce Denney
Bochs x86 Emulator Project
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Right now the current builds compile and run under OS X, but it needs
"OSX-erising"... the current build uses Carbon API calls and the
build could
probably be really improved if a good Cocoa/UNIX developer got
involved.
This could be really great as it would potentially provide the Mac
community
with a free PC emulator.
Any interested parties should contact Bryce directly,
Bryce Denney [email@hidden]
Thanks for your time,
Adam Salter
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