Boinc on OSX 10.2
28 Oct 2005 2:34:59 UTC
Topic 190072
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I wish Boinc would run on OSX 10.2. I read somewhere that it once did, but I cant find a version that works.
I might see what I can do with the source, and if anyone wants to help me, that would be awesome.
Boinc on OSX 10.2
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It used to however it now uses features only available in OSX 10.3. Good luck getting it to compile and run, I hope you succeed. One problem however is that it may do no good to get BOINC running if the science apps will not.
BOINC WIKI
BOINCing since 2002/12/8
Do you know what kind of
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Do you know what kind of things it requires in 10.3? I have ported a few things from 10.3 to 10.2 with eternal libraries, so i'll cross my fingers...
Sorry not a clue. Mostly run
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Sorry not a clue. Mostly run windows, with limited *nix and no apple experience.
BOINC WIKI
BOINCing since 2002/12/8
Jose, A lot of Mac folk
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Jose,
A lot of Mac folk hang out at Team MacMM, someone there might know.
The Mac hosts I've seen show "Darwin" for the Operating System. What version does OS X 10.2 correspond to?
Walt
I believe it is Darwin 6.x
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I believe it is Darwin 6.x while 10.3 is Darwin 7.x, which is the main problem.
But thanks, I'll check out that Link.
RE: Do you know what kind
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AFAIK the shared memory communication doesn't work as needed before MacOS 10.3. You may get the client to compile, but I wouldn't expect it to work properly in the end.
I also know that Charlie Fenton (who maintains the BOINC port for the Mac) spent quite some time on trying to make it run on 10.2 (and he is quite a skilled Mac programmer), but still in vain.
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