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Re: IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

eclectic — Thu May 14, 2009 2:52 pm

Author: eclectic

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:52 pm

The real problem is not running programs, it's mostly written in PHP which runs natively on almost anything. The problem is that Bob used a lot of MS Windows specific system calls to manage various things (like interprocess communications) that will need to be carefully examined, understood and made to work in a unix environment. That's the big job. I actually have it working on a freebsd machine but the process communication still needs a lot of work to make the whole thing functional. I just don't have time to hack code anymore.

Re: IVSMagic porting to Mac

hdonzis — Thu May 07, 2009 7:11 am

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 7:11 am

jmduke7 wrote:

If anyone can tell me or send me a link to the source code, I'll give it a whack!

It's the very first topic in this very forum! http://planetreplay.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14111...

Henry

IVSMagic porting to Mac

jmduke7 — Thu May 07, 2009 6:26 am

Author: jmduke7

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 6:26 am

Well, I'm a long time Mac user and will definitely never go back to a Windoze peecee, so my only option is to pursue porting IVS to a Mac. If anyone can tell me or send me a link to the source code, I'll give it a whack! Not that I'm real experienced in this field, or even have allot of extra time on my hands, but with some outside help (from the rest of you Mac users) maybe we can get something going.

I seem to remember a program that you can download that will help certain programs (not necessarily a .exe file) run on a Mac. It might make porting to a Mac much easier and less extensive. I'll just have to search around for it. Don't remember a whole lot about it, but do remember that it had something to do with MONGO (or at least you had to have it to run Mongo).

Any pointers on where to get started?

Re: IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

hdonzis — Wed May 06, 2009 9:09 pm

Author: hdonzis

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:09 pm

nded wrote:

Nobody has even hinted at attempting to tackle this. The program source code is available if you'd like to take on the mission.

Actually, I believe it has come up several times, especially since the posting of the source code. In particular, this post more than "hints" at specifically tackling this...

And, here even Bob himself brought it up! And, it was discussed fairly extensively at that time...

Henry

Re: IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

eclectic — Wed May 06, 2009 3:16 pm

Author: eclectic

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 3:16 pm

I started on this about a year ago but the code has a LOT of MSWindow$ "hooks" built into it that would make porting it more of an effort than I have time for. (Not to MAC but to FreeBSD.)

Re: IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

nded — Wed May 06, 2009 2:21 pm

Author: nded

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:21 pm

Nobody has even hinted at attempting to tackle this. The program source code is available if you'd like to take on the mission.

Re: IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

jmduke7 — Wed May 06, 2009 9:06 am

Author: jmduke7

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:06 am

has anyone made in progress on porting IVSmagic on a Mac?

Re: IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

na9d — Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:06 am

Author: na9d

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:06 am

No reason it shouldn't. Not sure what the performance will be as VPC is somewhat of a dog (but I can't wait for Microcrap to release a universal binary so it will run on Intel based Macs! ).

But since VPC is a full Windoze environment, it should. I've not done much networking with VPC so I don't know the issues involved with IP forwarding to VPC and ports and all.

What we are really hoping for is a port to OS X/Unix for IVSM. Bob, the author, is soon going to be releasing the source code. Since IVSM is based on Apache and PHP, there's no reason it can't be modified to run on OS X and modified farily easily, I think.

Jon

IVSm in Mac OS X (VirtualPC)?

cyber_RTV — Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:02 am

Author: cyber_RTV

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:02 am

Will IVSm run in Mac OS X undier VirtualPC for Mar?