[PD] comport works on osx!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that [comport] was already updated to be able to use any dev  
name.  Also, I think that using [comport 0] and [comport 1] will work  
on Mac OS X with USB-serial devices too.

Thanks for the report, good to know its working.

.hc

On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:03 PM, Rene Christen wrote:

> hi all,
>
> sorry if this is old news and i just couldn't find it in the archives.  
> just started up again on an old project and was looking into getting  
> serial into osx. back in july 2004 martin pichlmair compiled a version  
> of comport for osx (just by adding to the malkefile) after i posted  
> about it but i didn't have any luck then. it loaded but couldn't find  
> the device. with a little more knowledge now i tried again with the  
> same binary (latest version pd on osx 10.4) and found that all i had  
> to do was create a symbolic link so that comport could find it:
>
> ln -s /dev/tty.USA19H2b2P1.1 /dev/ttyS0
> (i just did "ls /dev/tty.*" to find the devicename)
>
> for what i'm doing it's running as well as on linux! the comport  
> source should definitely be updated to include this. although i still  
> have all the source files from martin back then doing this is beyond  
> my expertise. i'd be more than happy to add a sub-patch to the comport  
> help for osx users though
>
> thanks again martin - sorry it took me so long to get around to  
> figuring it out!
>
> cheers,
> rene.
>
> p.s. thanks to winfried ritsch for comport too!
>
>
>
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