[ts-gen] Re: mac question

[pippin at owlriver.net]

An anonymous poster asked, on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 at 13:16:14

> is there a version of trading shim that will run on an imac w/ 
> operating system MAC OS X??

The code has been written and designed in the hopes that it will run on
any reasonably modern Unix-like system.  I go to great lengths to write
clean, strongly typed code, and for the most part use typical system call
and library routines such as select(), write(), read(), and fgets().  The one
moderately exotic exception is the use of mmap() in the memory allocator,
and according to Stevens, mmap() is supported on both SVR4 and 4.3+BSD,
so I don't expect problems there.

I develop on a Linux box, and it has only been tested by us under that OS, so
that Linux is all I can claim at this very moment.

That being said ...

> if not do you plan to add that in the future??

We have already made fixes to get it to compile under BSD, which I believe
is similar to MAC OS X.

Perhaps more to the point, when I asked another developer about OS X support,
he was already working at installing it on a MAC, so there is a reasonable
hope that the future will be soon.  In any case, he will be posting to the
list later on to update readers on our port to MAC OS X.
 
I'd like to thank the person who sent in this question.

Thanks,

Bill