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--- en:software:porting [2012/04/12 21:09] – [bmp] Fix typo and add FPC version dependency 80.177.151.82
+++ en:software:porting [2012/07/04 19:25] – [MacOS port] 109.125.102.124
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 NOTE that FreePascal recently (Jan 1st, 2012) released a major new version, 2.6.0. This includes extensive language changes, and breaks compatibility with the [[en:software:compilation:bmp|bmp]] code. The reason for why bmp will not compile with FPC 2.6.0 is noted [[http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.0#Passing_derived_classes_to_var-_and_out-parameters|here]] in the FPC 2.6.0 User Changes document.
-A quick and dirty hack may be possible, but it's sensitive code (recursively parsing using a derived class). I'm not this conservative usually, but my (catfish) advice is simply to use an earlier version of FPC that supports passing derived classes to var- and out-parameters. It is confirmed that bmp will compile on FPC 1.0, 2.0 and 2.2 - these are no longer supported. I can further confirm that FPC 2.4.0 will successfully compile bmp (tested on 32-bit and 64-bit Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, on both genuine Apple hardware and Hackintosh rigs, and 64-bit Linux).
+A quick and dirty hack may be possible, but it's sensitive code (recursively parsing using a derived class). I'm not this conservative usually, but my (catfish) advice is simply to use an earlier version of FPC that supports passing derived classes to var- and out-parameters. It is confirmed that bmp will compile on FPC 1.0, 2.0 and 2.2 - these are no longer supported. I can further confirm that FPC 2.4.0 will successfully compile bmp (tested on 32-bit and
+-bit Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, on both genuine Apple hardware and Hackintosh rigs, and 64-bit Linux).
+===== MacOS port =====
+A MacOS port of the JNI library has been made available by a user. In order to run the jar packages generated with the SDK under MacOS the library file [[http://www.ztex.de/downloads/libusbJava.jnilib|libusbJava.jnilib]] must be copied to the working directory. **Warning: This file is a user contribution. Use it at your own risk.**
+Note that this file only supports the Intel Platform (Universal Binary i386 and x86_64) - if you are running an old PowerPC system obviously an x86 binary will not work, you have to compile a version suitable for your system yourself.
+A better solution is to install the libusb_compat port from MacPorts or homebrew and then compile the libusbJava SDK source using the catfish Makefile. This will produce both 32-bit and 64-bit (if your system supports it) JNI library files, which can either be installed into the system or simply copied into the folder used for ZTEX Java applications.
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