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Hi,

first let me thank you for a really great product. Codetyphon helps me keep my sanity while using Lazarus/FPC on different OSes/Computers.
But... for me as a - most of the time - Mac User there is one thing missing... an OSX Version of CodeTyphon would be great!

I would be glad to help you creating such a version(e.g. testing, giving hints etc.)

Greets
Michael

Thanks Sir
CodeTyphon OSX Version is in our plans Sir
but no ETA yet
I think after the release of CT ver 1.50 we can make
a test with OSX

I'm also curious, how went the test on OSX ?
The progress on the other Linuxes/Unixes is rather astonishing, so maybe some side influence and synergy did happen ?
I'm not in a hurry, only interested.

In our To-Do list is and MacOS Sir
We want to finish FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) CT Layer
In lab CT ver 2.30 BSD item has "Beta" status (in 2.20 has "Experimental")
Don't forget MacOS has parts from BSD OS...

While I am not a MAC user I have gotten requests for it... If CodeTyphoon eventually goes that route, ill be investing in one (either personally or through work) for development.

Delphi has firemonkey, but I am not totally sold on that whole thing.

Yes Sir
we have CodeTyphon for MacOSX task, in our To-Do list
but at this time we have others priorities like:
- QT4 port for CodeTyphon, we are at 90% of this process in our lab.

CodeTyphon has pl_LAVA Library for
Win32/64 Linux32/64 Freebsd32/64 and Solaris32/64
Oh, pl_lava don't use p-code players or "virtual" compiling procedures.

some screens from our Lab tests... on Scientific Linux 64bits
have fun

Interesting... Do you have a ETA on when the OSX work will start full force?

The situation with OSX is kinda more complicated than other ports.

FPC is available for OSX and should not be a problem.
The problem is Lazarus and in particular the LCL.

On OSX there is a plethora of mutually incompatible toolkits regarding the UI
(not to mention the dual architecture support).

For 32-bit applications (this includes Lazarus/LCL) we have:
- Carbon (which Apple failed to keep available, even if it was *promised* to be the universally available toolkit)
- Cocoa
- GTK2 (via X11)
- Qt

For 64-bit applications we have:
- Cocoa
- GTK2 (via X11)
- Qt

From all the above, Carbon has the best LCL support as a first level native UI toolkit. Unfortunately starting from MacOSX Lion is considered obsolete and MacOSX Snow Lion will probably drop it. Another disadvantage is that it supports only 32-bit applications.
Cocoa support is quite early and simply is inadequate to support such a complex project like CodeTyphon.
GTK2 is both ugly and bloated, not to mention the X11 dependencies.
Qt v4 is the only viable option, because it both supports 32/64-bit universally (i.e both PPC/Intel architectures) and is completely supported by LCL (plus it's GPL'd).

Currently mr. Sternas is doing lab tests for CT using Qt4 exclusively (under Chakra Linux).
When the next CT version arrives - provided that it supports Qt4 on all levels - I will start tests on MacOSX (for the PPC version I will target Leopard and for Intel Lion). Provided that CT compiles under Qt, MacOSX support (under Qt) should be available within a reasonable amount of time (Qt is a truly universal toolkit and is fully supported on OSX).

Some good info there, thanks!

Can't wait to see what comes out in the end after all the hard work that goes into this!

..a beautiful sweet melody!!

Hi Guys:

I'm new here, coming from Smalltalk world but planning to use Lazarus/FPC in my new line of products (Are basically trialware microISV products to sell by RegNow, ShareIt and so).

I would like to have a Mac OSX version of CodeTyphon and let me know if I can help in some way.

Cheers and Thanks for CodeTyphon, is really awesome.

sternas wrote: CodeTyphon has pl_LAVA Library for
Win32/64 Linux32/64 Freebsd32/64 and Solaris32/64
Oh, pl_lava don't use p-code players or "virtual" compiling procedures.

That means that is not possible to install/run/use LAVA Library in a common Lazarus in Mac?

Can you comment how to do it if is possible?

Thanks.