Portability
From Buzztard
We aim to make buzztard quite operating system independent (if possible). On this page we list all dependencies and links to portabillity issues. If a component is optional then the dependency type is soft, if it is mandatory then it is a hard dependency.
| dependency | type | gnu/linux | w32 | bsd/macosx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| glib2 2.10.0 | depends |
okay |
okay |
okay |
| gtk+2 2.6.0 | depends |
okay |
okay |
uses XDarwin for now (see GTK+ for MacOS X development) |
| gnome-canvas | depends |
okay |
okay |
okay |
| librsvg | depends |
okay |
should work |
should work |
| libxml2 | depends |
okay |
okay |
okay |
| gstreamer 0.10.7 | depends |
okay |
okay | |
| gconf 2.2.0 | supports |
okay |
porting in work |
okay |
| gnome-vfs | supports |
okay |
porting in work |
okay |
| check | supports |
okay |
porting in work |
okay |
| hal | supports |
okay |
??? |
??? |
| libgnome 2.6.0 | supports |
okay |
not needed |
not needed |
| libhildon | supports |
okay |
not needed |
not needed |
Green means "is no problem", Yellow means "not complete or we do not know", Red means "there is a problem".
[edit] Version checks in the code
find . -name "*.c" -exec grep "_CHECK_VERSION" {} \; | sort | uniq
Some of those can be removed if we raise the dependencies.
[edit] Links:
gstreamer for win32 - A quick googling came up with this link, possibly useful.
MacPorts is the most active effort to port open-source apps for MacOS X, it contains all the packages listed on this page. See the page about porting to MacOS.
porting gtk apps to windows. Some good tips about a few problems and how to solve them.
