[PD-dev] Tcl/Tk versions since 8.4.4 on Mac OSX?

james tittle tigital at mac.com
Thu Jul 14 21:03:35 CEST 2005


trying again...

Begin forwarded message:
> hi miller,
>
> On Jul 14, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought I saw someone had figured out how to fix the wierd problem
>> with newer-than-8.4.4 versions of Tcl/Tk on OSX (you click on the
>> app and
>> Tcl/Tk dies with an error, whereas running Pd.app/Contents/
>> Resources/bin/pd
>> works fine...)
>>
>
>
>> But madly searching through the list archives I can't find it... am
>> I dreaming?
>>
>
>
> ...this sounds kinda familiar, but I can say that over the last few
> days (on OSX 10.4.1) I've not had any problems with tcl/tk 8.4.9.1
> compiling and running the cvs head of pd (devel included)...the
> latest version is 8.4.10, but that introduces a change
>
>
>
>> Also, James found out that dynamic loading is now best done using
>> dlopen()
>> etc.. unlsee there's something wrong with that I'll stick it in.
>>
>
> ...outside of the initial work I did on this, I haven't revisited
> it...there really doesn't seem to be a problem if externals are built
> in two_level_namespace (ie. NOT flat_namespace), but I haven't tried
> this out with all externals in cvs...I'll keep ya posted as I try
> things out...in any event, like the patch says, dlopen is the
> preferred way for sometime on osx, and we didn't know... :-\
>
> james
>





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