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\S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the \I{Mac OS}Mac? \S{faq-mac-port}{Question} Will there be a port to the \I{Mac OS}Mac?
There are several answers to this question: We hope so!
\b The Unix/Gtk port is already fully working under Mac OS X as an X11 We attempted one around 2005, written as a native Cocoa application,
application. but it turned out to be very slow to redraw its window for some reason
we never got to the bottom of.
\b A native (Cocoa) Mac OS X port has been started. It's just about In 2015, after porting the GTK front end to work with GTK 3, we began
usable, but is of nowhere near release quality yet, and is likely to another attempt based on making small changes to the GTK code and
behave in unexpected ways. Currently it's unlikely to be completed building it against the OS X Quartz version of GTK 3. This doesn't
unless someone steps in to help. seem to have the window redrawing problem any more, so it's already
got further than the last effort, but it is still substantially
unfinished.
\b A separate port to the classic Mac OS (pre-OSX) is also in If any OS X and/or GTK programming experts are keen to have a finished
progress; it too is not ready yet. version of this, we urge them to help out with some of the remaining
problems!
\S{faq-epoc}{Question} Will there be a port to EPOC? \S{faq-epoc}{Question} Will there be a port to EPOC?