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Port For FreeBSD App (Blender)
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Feb 20, 2001, 06:10 PM
 
This Graphics App is really awsome. Is there an easy way to port it to OSX from freeBSD (or any of the other versions they have)? I'd think it shouldn't be too difficult. their website is www.blender.nl and they are an excellent freeware 3d dessign program.
     
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Feb 28, 2001, 05:37 AM
 
You'd need the complete source code. They have an open source section, but only for various bits of the program, not the whole thing. To have a hope of making an OS X version, you need every source file for every bit of the program.

Then you need to either rewrite the interface in Carbon or Cocoa, probably the latter for speed, or include a version of XFree86 to run it under.

Or you could get them to do it - after all, they probably want to sell it and make money, and they know the program better than anyone else. Have you asked them?

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Feb 28, 2001, 07:46 AM
 
Don't waste your time. The developers are working on a MacOS X port and we be out soon after the final release. The infomation is on http://www.dmntv.com

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