Setting up Delila Programs on Mac OS X

Is there a sequence logos program that runs on Mac OS X???!!!

The logo program is called makelogo:

https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/delila/makelogo.html

It is written in the computer language Pascal. The easiest way to set it up is to translate to C and then compile the C code. I have successfully used the p2c translator on Mac OS X. I then compiled the C code using gcc from the the Mac Developer kit.

So:

  1. Read: Information about Delila Software.
  2. Get the Mac C compiler from Apple. I downloaded gcc 3 (Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1151, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)) from Apple Developer Connection: https://connect.apple.com/. You will need to sign up with them. The file names I used were: "July2002DevToolsCD.dmg.bin" and "August2002DevToolsUpdate.dmg.bin". However I don't recall which I installed.
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  3. Get p2c, the Pascal to C transltor: https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/pascalp2c.html
  4. To make your life easier, you can get my tc script. The script translates a Pascal program to C and then compiles using gcc.
  5. Compile and translate. I have gotten my calc program running on OS X, so makelogo should also work.
  6. You will need to display the output - it is postscript. I have not gotten ghostview going yet. Information about postscript is found at https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/postscript.html

Other Useful Tools

By the way, it is worthwhile setting up atchange so that you can modify the parameter files for makelogo (in the makelogop file) and get the logo generated automatically when you write the file out. Atchange has to be modified slightly to work on OS X, but it is now part of my toolkit which I am developing to work on MacOSX and other unix systems.

Good luck!

Tom Schneider

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