Introduction

The PureFoundation project consists of three components: the Foundation.framework, which reproduces the functionality of Apple's Foundation; a patched version of the open source CFLite, which supports Foundation and Darwin by exporting missing symbols; and ddistnoted, the distributed notification daemon. Each component relies on the other, so you will need to install both. However, the patches to CFLite shouldn't prevent it operating as normal for non-Foundation applications.

This page details installing the binaries. Instructions for building a patched CFLite from source can be found here.

Details

PureFoundation has been tested with (and was developed using) the PureDarwin project's PureDarwinXmas, which is a VMWare image. These instructions assume that you are running this on a Mac, using VMWare Fusion.

1. Download PureFoundation-0.xxx.root.zip (where xxx is the highest versions listed) from the downloads page and un-archive it. For the rest of these instructions we'll assume the decompressed folders are in ~/Downloads/.
2. Ensure that VMWare Fusion is not running. Find the puredarwinxmas.vmwarevm virtual machine file in the Finder. Right- (Command-) click on it and select "Show Package Contents". A new window will open. Double click on the file puredarwinxmas.vmdk. This is the virtual machine's disk image, which should now be mounted.
3. You will probably want to move the existing CoreFoundation.framework somewhere safe, for if (when) something goes wrong.

    mv /Volumes/PureDarwinXmas/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework /Volumes/PureDarwinXmas/Users/Shared

4. Copy the frameworks into place. I suggest using ditto from the Terminal. (These exact commands are for the v0.003 release. Obviously, use the current version number.)

    ditto ~/Downloads/PureFoundation-0.003.root/ /Volumes/PureDarwinXmas/

5. Unmount the disk image.
6. Boot VMWare Fusion.
7. Start making notes about everything which doesn't work.