I've added a patchfile to the
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UiSimulator page (at the
bottom) which patches the CVS sources so that they build and run on
Mac OS X 10.4.6 with gcc 4.0.1. Someone probably wants to add them to
the source tree at some point before they get too stale.

They involve patching "tools/configure" to add a simulator case for
Darwin, patching the "apps" Makefiles to use "-dynamiclib
-Wl,-single_module" instead of "-shared" on Darwin, and patching
"uisimulator/common/io.c" to handle the Darwin case much like the
FreeBSD case.

There are still issues (running on a dual 2GH G5 Powermac):

  * sound plays in bursts, and the debug output keeps signaling
    "sdl_audio_callback: No Data."

  * the JPEG viewer bus-errors and crashes the simulator:

    Fatal signal: Bus Error (SDL Parachute Deployed)
    2006-05-10 20:49:50.356 rockboxui[7509] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool():
         Object 0x318ce40 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
    ...[another six or seven of those]...

I can view text files, and play most of the games. I've only tested
it with the iPod video simulator.

Bill
Received on Thu May 11 06:43:08 2006