$Id: PLATFORMS,v 1.13 2002/03/20 02:44:51 jgoerzen Exp $ These are the platforms on which gopher is known to work. Gopher should also work on any Unix/Posix platform (Solaris, SunOS, *BSD, Linux, MacOS X, etc). Please let us know if you have troubles compiling or running gopher on your platform by e-mailing gopher@complete.org. The second column in the list below indicates the latest version of gopher that someone has reported about. Thanks! jgoerzen@complete.org Platform Gopher Notes --------------------------- ------ ----------------------------------- FreeBSD/i386 ?.? 3.0.1 requires gmake FreeBSD/i386 4.4 3.0.3 OK -- Kevin Griffin Linux/alpha 2.2 (Debian sid) 3.0.3 verified for each release by jgoerzen Linux/i386 2.2 (Debian sid) 3.0.3 OK -- John Goerzen Linux/ppc 2.4 (Debian sid) 3.0.3 OK -- John Goerzen Linux/i386 ?.? (Slackware) 3.0.1 MacOSX/ppc 10.1 (Darwin) 3.0.4 use gnumake instead of gmake Build on UFS partition SEE NOTES BELOW OK -- John Goerzen NetBSD/i386 1.5ZA (-current) 3.0.4 verified for each release by jgoerzen requires gmake Solaris/i386 2. 3.0.2 OK -- Don Fike ----------- If you want to use gopher on older platforms (VMS, Ultrix, etc), please check out the UMN gopher 2.3.1 distribution. Gopher 3 is not currently supporting VMS, though we have not removed the VMS support from the tree. (VMS hackers: help us out!) ** Special notes for Mac OS X / Darwin: Darwin appears to have some compatibility problems. Note that you must have the developer pack installed to build gopher. You must also use gnumake instead of make. Now here's the kicker -- If you are building on a HFS+ partition rather than a UFS one, the case-insensitivity in the operating system can cause problems. Build instead on a UFS partition. You can try this by using the Disk Copy tool to create a UFS playground within your HFS partition. Untar the gopher source tree on this UFS volume and build it there. Clint Paden reports that this will work.