Amaya Darwin

Amaya is the W3C's testbed browser for new technology standards. However, it does not work on Mac OS X and XDarwin without some minor tinkering.

With releases up to 6.1, installation of Amaya on Darwin was fairly regularized by scripts from the Fink project. When gtk was added as an alternative to motif or lesstiff, it seemed finished, and it was easy to use inside of Mac OS X.

This changed, and for a while no updates or patches were made for supporting Amaya on the Macintosh platform. A revision of technique in December 2002 allowed Amaya 7.1 to be compiled on Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2, but the browser did not work completely on 10.2.

When built-in X11 is finished for Jaguar, it may be possible to run Amaya normally, but now it works on a one-load basis, and often crashes if links are navigated or HTTP is used.

This needs further testing. Try the current version 7.1 by following the instructions in README.darwin, enclosed with patchfiles.

An installer script will try three phases of compilation, applying patches in between as necessary.

Download:

amaya-darwin.tgz (1,439 bytes)

Contact:

joseph @ myerskids.com

4-27-03, Further reference:

See ../../daily/2003/04-26.text Saturday, April 26, 2003 for entire instructions related to installation/compilation of Amaya 8.0 on Mac OS X.

10-3-03:

See ../notes/software.html#9-7-03.

http://www.myersdaily.org/joseph/problems/amaya-darwin.txt