I should thought that someone else, who doesn’t know the italian language, may read my message. I’m sorry.
My idea is that the problem may lie in the size of some structures and declarations that I changed in order to make the source compilable. By the way, if the C/C++ code is well written, to port a XWindow o CLI application from Linux to Mac isn’t too difficult for a software engineer.
I asked to you because, at the moment, I don’t know directly any linux user around here (but I can’t say I made a thorough search…). To ask seemed to me the simpler and faster thing to do before to spend time to debug something I’m going to use only one or two times. I’m assure you I’m not a lazy guy; I just hoped you already had a solution.
However because you are kindly offering your help, if you really have time and will, I gladly accept it. After all we are both Italians in a foreign country… 😉
If would be possible to translate for me the Italian->English, English->Italian, Italian->German and German->Italian Babylon dictionares, that would be great!! My email is lucaseverini@mac.com .
And of course… “a buon rendere…”

Ciao and have a nice weekend.

Luca

It is virtually impossible to say what is not working on a Mac. I do not have any Macs so i cannot test. It could be one million different things. Mac is derived from Unix sure, but in general applications and source codes cannot be swapped between them as there are many inherent difference in the OS structure, libraries, etc. One application designed for Mac is not generally portable on a Linux, and vice versa. There might be some exception of source code that is platform independent such as Java but i think this application is not one of those.

I would suggest two things:
1) you can install the dictionary converter on any linux system, if you do not have you could ask a friend to do so for you, then convert the dictionaries and bring to your computer only the converted dictionaries. That’s what you need, you actually do not need the converter itself on your computer.
2) if you really cannot find anyone around you, willing to help and running a linux, you could at least use a debugger to locate the cause of the segmentation fault, otherwise without a debugger i guess it is a real hell.

How many dictionaries do you need to convert? If they are not too many i could do it for you, and upload somewhere or email to you the converted dictionaries

Let me know, if i can help i will be glad to

Rossana

Vorrei utilizzare i dizionari Babylon (che sono i migliori come hai anche detto tu) che uso su Windows con l’applicazione Dictionary su Leopard (MacOS 10.5).
Essendo un programmatore su piattaforma Apple (e Windows ma non Linux… I’m sorry) ho scaricato i sorgenti e li ho compilati applicando alcune semplici correzioni al makefile per risovere alcuni problemi di link con libiconv.
Il programma si compila e si installa correttamente ma quando provo a eseguire la conversione dei dizionari l’applicazione va in Segmentation Fault.
Prima di imbarcarmi nel debug del codice volevo sapere se, per caso, avevi qualche idea su cosa non funzioni compilando su Mac che come probabilmente sai e’ uno stretto derivato di Unix (BSD). Magari qualcuno che lo ha gia fatto sul Mac te lo ha detto e poi chiedere non costa nulla… almeno spero 😉
Ti ringrazio e scusa per il disturbo.

Un saluto dalla Silicon Valley.

Luca