[Unison-hackers] Unison OSX

[Benjamin Pierce]

[cc'ing unison-hackers, in case someone wants to comment... :-]

Compiling the text-mode application (which is what you want on the  
server) is easy.  Just grab and install the OCaml compiler from here

   http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/release.en.html

then grab and unpack the Unison tarball from the download page, go  
inside it, and type 'make UISTYLE=text'.

To build the GUI version, first do the above; then install the xcode  
tools (they can be downloaded from apple).  Then type 'make' and you  
should get a Unison.app inside the uimac directory.

The GUI version can probably also be found by searching the unison- 
users archives, but you'll need to make sure you get the same major  
version number on client and server.

Yes, we should probably offer a pre-built Unison.app on macupdate or  
versiontracker.  Someone would probably have to do a little packaging  
work, though, to make an installer script, since we'd want to provide  
both the text-mode version and the GUI in a single dmg and make sure  
they get installed in the right places.

     - Benjamin


On Apr 20, 2006, at 5:19 PM, jon pilling wrote:

> thanks for the reply, is their an idiots guide to compiling the Unison
> app? Our Unix guy (that is no longer with the company) set it up for
> us on the Mac Server, but I would quite like to know how to do it
> myself. I am one of those lazy mac users that only has experience of
> downloading a .dmg and finding the .app inside!
>
> If you guys ever get time to release a .app version of Unison for X it
> would certainly go down very well on macupdate.com and
> versiontracker.com, there are a few syncing apps out there but non of
> them seem as comprehensive as Unison, it would be good to see more Mac
> users using it.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Jon