Subject RE: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird on Intel Mac
Author Nigel Weeks
> >You'll need to do a port - probably
> >easier than the PowerPC port, but
> >still, not a simple install.
>
> Ok, well at least it can be done. Are there any instructions anywhere
> that explain how do to this? I have the Firebird book but don't see
> anything in there about this and am not even sure I know what you
> mean. I assume you mean build it from source code? I've never done
> that before but could probably work through it if I had some
> instructions. Thanks for any info on this. Appreciate it.

It's going to be incredibly close to the FreeBSD port, and the other porting
effort to PowerPC build.

Patches required to get it to build on FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/databases/firebird-server/files/

Document on building on Mac OS X(possibly slightly out of date)
http://homepage.mac.com/david.pugh/FirebirdOSX/FirebirdDatabaseonOSX.html


Nige.