[mcclim-devel] McCLIM on the Mac

[Christian Lynbech]

I could use some pointers on the status of McCLIM on the Mac. In
particular, I am interested in how to run against the native graphics
system rather than having to run the X11 server.

I have looked a bit on the beagle backend but I cannot get it to
work. A few fixes is needed just to get it to compile. Once that is
done, it does compile and load but once an application (such as the
calculator demo) is started, the lisp process freezes with output to
the effect of:

        ? 2007-04-22 20:07:30.708 dppccl[2492] *** Assertion failure in -[NSWindowGraphicsContext reenableDisplayPosting], GraphicsContext.subproj/NSWindowGraphicsContext.m:117
        2007-04-22 20:07:30.708 dppccl[2492] *** Assertion failure in -[NSViewHierarchyLock unlockTopMostReader], AppKit.subproj/NSViewHierarchyLock.m:444
        2007-04-22 20:07:30.710 dppccl[2492] Error in event loop: Objective-C runtime exception: 
        Invalid parameter not satisfying: th

suggesting something going wrong deep down below the lisp level. This
was with the latest mcclim CVS, OpenMCL 1.0 and PPC OSX 10.4.9.

Before diving in I would like to know if the beagle backend is
considered dead beyond repair (or at least if others than myself has
any interest in it). Are there alternatives, can the gtkairo or opengl
backends be brought to fly without X11?


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