10.8.8 does not build on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

[Steve Adams]

I just tried to compile nimrod on Mac OS X 10.4.11 with a PowerPC CPU. uname -m reports the CPU as "Power Macintosh" and uname reports the OS as Darwin. When I use the build.sh script, it does not recognize the CPU. If I modify the script to recognize Power in addition to power, it does recognize the CPU, but there are no build instructions for GCC to use for the PPC.

[Andreas Rumpf (rumpf-a)]

In $nimrod/rod/nimrod.ini activate PowerPC support (line 5). Then do

koch csource [-d:release]

This produces C code for the PowerPC too. You have to do this on a machine with a properly installed Nimrod, of course. BUT: PowerPC has never been tested! Please try it out and report any problems here.

I don't get why "*Power*" needs to be used instead of "*power*". $ucpu should already be in lower case.

[Steve Adams (adamss)]

I didn't get very far with this. I've modified the nimrod.ini file (on a Linux system), and then tried to do the koch command. What I get is: Error: cannot open 'tools/niminst.nim'