[Gd-hackers] OS X Build of OpenDylan beta 4 Wrong?

[Thomas Christian Chust]

Jonathan Sobel wrote:

> [...]
> I just downloaded the Darwin tarball of beta 4, and I can't make  
> sense of it.  It appears to have no README, and also to have very  
> different contents from the Linux tarball.  It's much, much smaller.   
> What's going on?  Is the wrong thing in the download directory?

Hello Jonathan,

as far as I know the contents of the binary distribution archives for
all the unixoid systems are equivalent. The difference in binary size
between Linux and MacOS X may be due to the fact that the Linux version
uses a different garbage collection library than the MacOS X one and the
former one is linked statically, if I recall correctly.

> [...]
> Assuming the tarball is correct (which isn't obvious), do I need  
> libgc, as I do for d2c?

Yes, you do need a recent version of the Boehm Demers Weiser garbage
collector installed.

cu,
Thomas


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