[PD-dev] patch for alsa sequencer midi support

[Pablo]

Buenas guenter geiger, el 04 de nov de 2004, a las 01:07 escribiste:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Pablo wrote:
> 
> > Here is a patch for pd that gives native alsa sequencer support for
> > routing midi messages.
> > It is the working version i have, and it chooses between alsa or oss at
> > compile time, the code seemed prepared for such a thing, but i'm
> > thinking it might be better to let the user choose at execution as with
> > audio.
> >
> > As i can take some time to think about a way to do it differently here
> > is the initial 'unofficial' patch for people who can benefit from it and
> > test it.
> >
> > http://nabla.ath.cx/delirium/pd_alsa_midi.patch.diff
> 
> Hi, thanks for  the patch. I just tried it out. Hooked up seq24 to pd.
> Its really easy to use. Works very well for basic midi messages.

what do you mean with basic messages? I already fixed all the kinds of
messages, so it should run smoothly with all midi objects (if i'm not
forgetting anything important, well, maybe raw midi is still not working)

> > you should apply the patch to a fresh cvs checkout with
> >   patch -p1 < pd_alsa_midi.patch
> > (execute that from the main dir of the checkout)
> >
> > i had some problems with configure script that led to stupid compile
> > errors.
> > it seems my final makefile was missing -DUNIX and -DUNISTD in MORECFLAGS
> > variable.
> > as this problems have nothing to do with my patch they are not
> > corrected in the diff, so beware if you try to compile.
> 
> yes, this is really a bit of a problem. The build  system is extremely
> messy. Also, the version in CVS is not the same as test8.
> 
> I applied it to test8 too, but there are some additional changes
> in u_main.tk which make this a bit  problematic.
> 
> Hope we can sort all of this out afer ICMC.
> 
> Guenter

i originally programmed the patch for test8, if i'm not wrong, so i can
also make a patch for it if you think it'd be useful.

	pablo