As some of my friends already know, I bought my first Mac last week (a shiny, well, matte black, Macbook). Of course it's been quite an adjustment for me, having used Windows and then Linux for my entire computer-using life, but it's been mostly positive. One of the first steps is of course to find out how to run all my favorite cross-platform applications, and find substitutes for those that are not cross-platform. Thankfully OS X comes with a decent UNIX subsystem, so I didn't need to hunt down the majority of my favorite command line utilities.

Though I hadn't originally intended to do so, looking at all these UNIX applications made me curious, so I started researching whether I could run the necessary applications to compile AIMFix under OS X. Well, sure enough, after some digging and a small amount of tweaking, I was able to get MinGW, make, and UPX running just fine. Even more satisfying, AIMFix compiled without any changes to the Makefile.

So, the short version is, AIMFix now compiles just fine on OS X :)

-Jay