If you want to just port the IDE to MacOSX it's possible. I will miss some steps for sure but below can be your startup:


1) Eclipse platform already has a port on MacOSX which you can download from this link http://download.eclipse.org/
eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5.1-200909170800/index.php

2) Assuming you have that working well, you can update your eclipse platform with our IDE update site https://www.qnx.
com/account/updates/foundry27/ide/4.7/

3) This should bring you all the QNX features and bundles. You still don't have the full Momentics as you may miss 
several branding settings. You will have to modify your Eclipse configuration to adhere to the Momentics settings.

4) After that you have to port the QNX tool chain to MacOSX. It includes (but is not limited to) the compilers, debugger
 and binutils. This is the most important portion of the porting works because without the QNX tool chain, you are only 
running Eclipse platform.
I suggest you join the "Core Development Tools" project http://community.qnx.com/sf/projects/toolchain. You have access 
to the source of our tool chain from that project.

5) There are several native code within the IDE which need to be ported. One of them is the licensing enforcement. You 
can't port this by yourself because the code is not public for obvious reason.

I've done this since 6.4.0 for my own machines.  I've ported most of the nessesities to make an OSX SDK (toolchain, 
utils, IDE etc) and use it daily (as do a growing number of other developers here at QNX).  I've successfully build 
procnto, startup and our multimedia stack with it and haven't hit any issues with compatibility.  So it is do-able.

That said, it's not straight forward and requires tweaking or recursive makefiles to work with Apples gcc/linker and 
lots of massaging for some host tools.  Also as Andy mentioned the license enforcement will be an issue for both the IDE
 as well as some of the host tools so it might be a non-starter for you.

Hi, Kevin,

Certainly, there would be some effort in getting the SDP command-line tools
ported to OS X: all the various cross-compiler toolchains in the QCC.

The Eclipse CDT component of the IDE already runs well on OS X (some hiccups
with 64-bit Mach-O format, but that's not an issue in this context) and
there isn't much else of native code in the IDE.  By and large, it should
"just work."  There's an embedded TFTP server that would have to be ported
if you need that ...

The major obstacle, I suppose, is the licensing infrastructure:  that would
have to be provided to you by QNX for the OS X platform.  I don't expect
that it is something that would be made available in source form  :-)

Why not just run the SDP in a Linux instance on VMWare Fusion?  Its quite
smooth.

Cheers,

Christian


On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:48 -0400, Kevin Stallard wrote: 



Hi All,



I would like to get Momentics running on a Macintosh.  It certainly won't
happen quickly, but I'd at least like to take a stab at it and try to
account for what would need to be done.



Would there exist a list of things that would have to be ported (in binary
form) to OSX for this to work?  If not, can someone help me put that
together?  I don't really have an in-depth knowledge of what goes into the
IDE for a full up momentics installation.   Nor do I have a great knowledge
of the Eclipse framework, but I do think that a mac OSX version of this
would be fantastic....



Thanks

Kevin









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