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Executor is a Macintosh emulator that is able to run many ancient Mac
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OS 680x0 binaries (System 6 era, early System 7) without using any
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intellectual property from Apple Computer.
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Executor has not been actively worked on for many years. It is more
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of a curiousity than anything practical; it does not run PowerPC
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binaries, nor did it even run most System 7 applications. Unless you
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have a particular application that you know works with Executor, or
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just like emulation a lot, you probably don't want to spend any time
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with Executor.
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Included are a bunch of auxiliarly files and miscellaneous front-ends.
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The DOS port required various other libraries that we had permission
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to use, but that we did not necessarily have the permission to publish
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the source for, so the source to some of the packages that the DOS
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port requires is not present in the github repository.
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Don't be mislead by configure.ac, Executor currently builds using an
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ancient configuration script. If you want to try to build a version
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of Executor for Linux, try doing this (*After you've done a make
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install of syn68k):
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mkdir -p build/debug-linux
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cd build/debug-linux
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../../util/configure.sh '--target=i486-linux' '--host=i486-linux' '--front-end=x' '--target-gcc=gcc' '--cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/X11R6/include -O0 -finline-functions -g -Wall' '--root=../..' '--target-file-format=glibc' '--sound=linux' '--syn68k-target=i486-linux-glibc'
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make
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That should leave you with a binary called executor. Unfortunately, without
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a System Folder, Executor won't even come close to running. If you're using
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a system that can install RPMs and you can dig up and install a copy of
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executor-aux-2.1pr16-1.i386.rpm, then you should be able to run.
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I'll fiddle around a bit and figure out the easiest way to build a
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System Folder for Executor from the git repository and add that info
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next. In the meantime, if anyone is reading this and wants a copy of
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executor-aux-2.1pr16-1.i386.rpm, try messaging me (ctm) at github.
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If you're on an x86_64 based machine and you have the ability to compile
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32-bit binaries, you should be able to build a copy of Executor by doing
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something like
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mkdir -p build/debug-linux
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cd build/debug-linux
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../../util/configure.sh '--target=i486-linux' '--host=i486-linux' '--front-end=x' '--target-gcc=gcc -m32' '--cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/X11R6/include -O0 -finline-functions -g -Wall' '--root=../..' '--target-file-format=glibc' '--sound=linux' '--syn68k-target=i486-linux-glibc'
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make
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However, you may find that you need to hand-edit Makefile and change the line
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HOST_GCC = gcc
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to
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HOST_GCC = gcc -m32
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If you have SDL <http://libsdl.org/> installed and would like to use
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the SDL-based version of Executor on Linux, you can try:
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mkdir -p build/debug-linux-sdl
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cd build/debug-linux-sdl
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../../util/configure.sh '--target=i486-linux' '--host=i486-linux' '--front-end=sdl' '--cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/X11R6/include -O0 -finline-functions -g -Wall' '--root=../..' '--target-file-format=glibc' '--sound=sdl' '--syn68k-target=i486-linux-glibc'
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make
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If you have SDL <http://libsdl.org/> installed and would like to play with
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the SDL-based version of Executor on Mac OS X Intel, you can try:
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mkdir -p build/debug-macosx-sdl
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cd build/debug-macosx-sdl
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../../util/configure.sh '--target=i486-macosx' '--host=i486-macosx' '--front-end=sdl' '--cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/X11R6/include -O0 -finline-functions -g -Wall' '--root=../..' '--target-file-format=glibc' '--sound=sdl' '--syn68k-target=i486-macosx-glibc'
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make
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If you have SDL installed and would like to build (but not run) the
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SDL-based version of Executor on Mac OS X PPC, you can try:
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mkdir -p build/debug-macosx-sdl
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cd build/debug-macosx-sdl
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../../util/configure.sh '--target=powerpc-macosx' '--host=powerpc-macosx' '--front-end=sdl' '--cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/X11R6/include -O0 -finline-functions -g -Wall' '--root=../..' '--target-file-format=glibc' '--sound=sdl' '--syn68k-target=powerpc-macosx-glibc'
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In the past it was possible to cross-compile a version of Executor for
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Windows using mingw32. So far that port hasn't been tried since
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putting the code on Github. It probably doesn't work, but probably
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could be made to work without much effort.
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My email address is still <ctm@ardi.com>, although ARDI itself is
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defunct. I get a ridiculous amount of spam and will quite possibly
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not see email addressed to me. I'm ctm on github (http://github.com)
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and typically check my email there once a day.
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--Cliff Matthews
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