[Weather] 1-Wire Software for a Mac

[Dave McGuire]

On Nov 17, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Matthew Smith wrote:
>> What is the latest on 1-wire data acquisition and control software
>> for the Mac?
>> Anybody using this? With the new Mac Intel boxes, this is probably a
>> moot point but wanted to ask anyway as I prefer the Mac development
>> environment. DAC is harder but GUI is easier.
>
> I don't know a lot about Macs, but am guessing that if OSX is a
> BSD-derived operating system, it should be POSIX-compliant and  
> therefore
> you should be good with anything written in C, if you don't mind a bit
> of tweaking.  (See: <http://developer.apple.com/tools/> )  I'm pretty
> sure that Dallas did some Java stuff which would also be cross- 
> platform.

   I've ported a lot of stuff to OS X.  The kernel is based on CMU's  
Mac, but the system libraries and userland stuff is an odd mix of  
NetBSD and FreeBSD.  Most stuff ports pretty easily.

> I'm going to try running Dalweathdb on Sparc/Solaris 10 just as  
> soon as
> I figure out how to get my Stallion serial card working under Solaris.

   I'm almost entirely Solaris/SPARC-based here as well. :-)

> That's just a simple re-compile as far as I can see, so wouldn't have
> thought that things would be that different going to a Mac.

   There may be some differences in the ioctl() calls for setting up  
the serial port, but that's usually not too hard to deal with.

> For some reason, I find the idea of putting Intel chips into a Mac  
> just
> a bit creepy ;-)

   Geeks of a feather, we are. ;)

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL