[AG-TECH] vic and rat on MAC?

[Matthew Wolf]

I got pretty far down this road before real work got in the way.  :)

tcl/tk ends up being a non-issue.  xfree86 runs in a rootless mode under
OSX, so you can just take the UCL versions of tcl/tk & build them.  (not
as pretty as doing an aqua interface, but it works.)  

The real problem is that Darwin has a completely different device
interface.  Everything's tied up in a core library that you have to call
-- no /dev/audio, /dev/video, etc.  So the real work is all in figuring
out how to match function calls inside rat & vic to the functions in the
library.  Probably a decent undergrad project for a semester, but I've
never had anyone bite when I've suggested it.

Maybe someone out there has a more adventurous and/or Mac-friendly
supply of undergrads.  :)

Matt

Colin Perkins wrote:
> 
> A quick-and-dirty port of rat to MacOS X shouldn't be hard, if there's a
> tcl/tk port already (just re-do the audio driver).
> 
> Colin
> 
> --> Allan Spale writes:
> >Tom,
> >
> >Theoretically it may be possible.  There is a grad student at EVL who is
> >doing some porting of RAT to Windows CE.  He was looking at porting one of
> >the two to MAC, but it seemed like a hassle.  The source is C code with
> >Tcl/Tk, but it just sounds like a scary thought to do the porting.  As a
> >side note, VRVS supports passively viewing and listening to an AG session
> >through Quicktime (though I have yet to try that).  However, since VIC and
> >RAT are not actually ported, you cannot transmit via VRVS using Quicktime
> >to an AG session.
> >
> >
> >Allan
> >
> >On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Tom Coffin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> has any one ported the vic and rat stuff to a MAC??
> >>
> >>
> >> ___________________________________________________________
> >> Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
> >>
> >

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        -- Matthew Wolf 
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        -- College of Computing, Georgia Tech
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