Server Help

Warhaven · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject: ASSS on *nixPPC

I've been out of the SubSpace loop for some time now. Haven't had internet at home for several months now, so pardon my ignorance.

Does anyone have any info/success on ASSS running on LinuxPPC (any distro), or OS X? I talked with Grelminar some time ago about it, and now that the source is availalbe, I'm going to futz with it -- but before I invest too much time into it, just wanted to see if anyone else has.

I'll be working on it for the following PPC *nix distros:

RedHat PPC
Mandrake PPC
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
and OS X via Darwin

I'll be doing Darwin first, as OS X is the primary distro for PPC home users. Byte order shouldn't be a problem as long as the APIs are stock.

-Warhaven

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject: Re: ASSS on *nixPPC

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

Yup, byte order will be your only problem here. You'll have to define a set of macros to do byte swapping, and conditionally define them to do the right thing on the right platforms. I'll be happy to merge your changes back into my tree as long as they're complete and cleanly implemented. If you need help getting started, let me know, and I can hack out at least the macros that you'll need.

Warhaven · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:08 pm Post subject:

Alright, thanks. I still need to grab DB, though. Mine's aparently too old.

Oh, and I'll let you know if MacPython works too.

Warhaven · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 11:08 pm Post subject:

It works...sort of. I had a bit of problem with the preprocessor stuff. I only took one year of C, and we didn't cover much regarding that. From then on, I've been doing Java, which doesn't have to deal with any of that garbage.

Anyway, it runs on OS X. Had to change a little bit of it, but works for the most part.

However, in an act of rebeliousness, I tossed it. Was really no point in me doing this anyway, as you'll never see SS/Continuum on anything except Windows.

Still, my hat is off to you Grelminar. Nicely written, though the structs couldn't have been easy. If you ever get around to making a client, let me know. I'll probably get the server working on OS X again. Wasn't terribly difficult.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

eh, enough people want a linux/mac/etc client for it to hopefully eventually make it there