Re: rekall's startup on OSX

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> IIRC there is an issue on MAC OS/X to do with static constructors - 
> rekall
> uses them quite a lot to dynamically register components (form+report
> controls, macro instructions, wizard controls. Have you tried 
> designing a
> form and, if so, can you create any controls.

Form design is allowed actually, although again, I have to the trick I 
mentioned earlier for things to load up correctly.

>
> There was some code around a while back to do the registration without 
> static
> constructors (for form/report controls) when we thought this might be a
> problem for the Windows build, if neccessary I could resurrect it into 
> the
> 2.3.x code base and do the same for macros and for wizard controls.

I've got a pretty good idea why it's doing this actually- kb_main's 
call to KBWizardDummy was temporarily commented out, due to it 
continually causing things to segfault in the KBWizardCtrlReg 
constructor, specifically when attempting wizardCtrlMaker.insert.

I've been digging through the code a bit trying to figure out what 
exactly is going on, although I'll flat out admit I'm groping in the 
dark a bit as to why the insert is dieing.

What exactly were the issues w/ static constructors under darwin?  The 
only thing I'm aware of is issues w/ dynamic libraries no longer 
automatically calling init functions.


> I'd suggest creating an admin.osx.kde3 directory, or some similar 
> name, and
> modifying Makefile.cvs so you can do
>
> make -f Makefile.cvs osx-kde
>
> or suchlike, then there is no need to worry about breaking linux 
> builds (at
> the cost of some duplication)
I've split the admin directories up, restoring the original admin.kde3- 
I'm currently adjusting it a to a few changes I've made in the build 
system (nothing too major).

> Having an OS/X version of Rekall is really great, I'm happy to provide 
> all the
> help I can on this. If it would help, we can run an IRC channel on this

Not a bad idea- I actually hunted around for one when I first decided I 
was going to try and get rekall going under osx.
~brian
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