[PD] Re: [PD-announce] Pd compiled for imac

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 28, 2006, at 12:54 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> OK, sounds like I have to figure out how to make fat binaries... (I
> don't think the subdirectory idea is all that great because I'd have
> to change  Pd to look in them and then new externs wouldn't work in  
> old
> versions of Pd.)

I mean just for distributing them.  People would just copy them in  
the current directory layout.  That's how I've distributed  
multiple .pd_linux files in the past.

> On the other hand, if I can figure out fat binaries I can get away  
> without
> releasing separate "apps" for the two architectures.  So this would be
> a Good Thing.

This is a much better solution than making .pd_imac or whatever.  To  
reiterate, .pd_linux has worked fine on that platform with many  
archs, I see no reason why Mac OS X needs two file extensions.

.hc

>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:34:57AM +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> On May 28, 2006, at 12:22 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>
>>> Yep... I thought 'imac' meant 'intel-mac' but I guess it doesn't.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I think that if someone wants to publish an extern that  
>>> works
>>> on either mips or i86 macs, they would have to include both
>>> "dylib"s...
>>> unless there's a way to make a fat dylib with binaries for both
>>> architectures.
>>
>> Apple provides two mechanisms for this, one is fat binaries, which
>> have been supported since NeXTSTEP 3.2 (Mac OS X 10.4 == NeXTSTEP
>> 6.4), and the other is Rosetta, which runs PPC code in emulation.
>> NeXTSTEP/Apple uses gcc for everything, so building fat binaries is
>> just a matter of figuring out the gcc options.
>>
>>> Even so, it's easier to figure out what's what if the name reflects
>>> the
>>> architecture so you know what targets the extern is compiled for.
>>> So perhaps on intel macs, it should just be "pd_macintel" (more
>>> mellifluous
>>> than "pd_intelmac"?)
>>
>> The .pd_linux extension has been working fine for 10+ architectures,
>> I don't see why Mac OS X needs more than one.  If people want to
>> distribute binaries for the different architectures, I think it will
>> be easier to just put the files in properly labeled directories (ie.
>> x86/object.pd_darwin  ppc/object.pd_darwin).
>>
>> Having more file extensions will mean I will have to modify the Pd-
>> extended build system quite a bit to make it work for that new
>> extension.  This will take a lot of time, and probably introduce some
>> bugs, and I can't see any benefit.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Miller
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:05:12AM +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am guessing that you mean x86 Mac OS X when you say iMac.  If so,
>>>> then actually, all of Apple's new computers will be x86 based, not
>>>> just the iMac.  I personally don't see any benefit to having
>>>> different file extensions for different platforms.  .so and .a are
>>>> cross-platform and cross-architecture, for example.  .dll  
>>>> and .dylib
>>>> are OS-specific, but not architecture specific.
>>>>
>>>> I think something like .pdclass for all platforms would work best.
>>>> Or maybe just use platform-native for each platform, like Thomas
>>>> suggested:
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2006-01/005720.html
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>> 	
>>>> On May 27, 2006, at 6:53 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've got an experimental version of Pd compiled for imac
>>>>> available on
>>>>> http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html ... unfortunately,  
>>>>> since it
>>>>> seemed advisable to update portaudio to the new, completely
>>>>> rewritten one,
>>>>> it would be unwise to retrofit this to Pd 0.39 (might change
>>>>> latencies
>>>>> or other things for pre-existing platforms).
>>>>>
>>>>> I made up a new file extension for externs (pd_imac) ... we could
>>>>> always
>>>>> go to a "sensible" naming convention in the future and stay back
>>>>> compatible,
>>>>> if people think it's too ad hoc.  In the long term, the set of
>>>>> architectures/
>>>>> OSes seems set to stay at around hald a dozen active ones, so
>>>>> there's no
>>>>> big problem just making up names unsystematically.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only other policy implication is this: I'm using files from  
>>>>> the
>>>>> supplied "Wish shell.app" on Imac, which seems a reasonable  
>>>>> thing to
>>>>> do, but strictly speaking it's probably more correct to download a
>>>>> bsd-licensed wish shell or recompile it from source.  That  
>>>>> shouldn't
>>>>> be too difficult to do, I hope.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers
>>>>> Miller
>>>>>
>>>>>
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