[PD-dev] desire OSX

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2005, at 1:17 PM, james tittle wrote:
> > matju (or anyone else working on desire),

I didn't receive your message. pd-dev seems to eat some once in a while.

> > set $OS $tcl_platform(platform)
> > isn't fine grained enough for our purposes, but would be better if it were:
> > set $OS $tcl_platform(os)
> > ...doing that, $OS is set to Darwin here, but with (platform) I also get
> > unix, which isn't very specific 8-\
> Actually, I think you need a combo of both  $tcl_platform(platform) and
> $tcl_platform(os) to cover all the supported situations.  This is what is at
> the top of u_main.tk:
> if { $tcl_platform(platform) == "windows" }  {
>          set pd_nt 1
> } elseif { $tcl_platform(os) == "Darwin" } {
>          set pd_nt 2
> } else {
>          set pd_nt 0
> }

Yes, it should the the way that Hans says, but making those changes:

  set pd_nt 0  ->  set OS unix
  set pd_nt 1  ->  set OS windows
  set pd_nt 2  ->  set OS osx

To fit the actual code in desire.tk

> > [gdb] (gdb) (gdb) Starting program:  -guiport 13666
> > ...but then it doesn't go any further:

It's supposed to continue like this:

[gdb] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[gdb] [New Thread 1079372000 (LWP 11740)]

If it doesn't, then try starting desire.tk with option -nogdb and if it 
doesn't cut it either then try starting _regular_ puredata (devel or 
pureMSP) with -guiport just in case there's a bug that makes it hang on 
OSX.

> >  here's what I get when trying to open a patch:
> > can not find channel named ""

That means that there's no socket because the server isn't finished 
loading. a Tcl channel = a C FILE*.

> > ...any insight here?  I'm wondering if it still tries to just call pd
> > without the pd_path:  the app_pkg bundle doesn't have the "standard"
> > install locations for pd and friends:

I think that this might be the problem, but I haven't fixed it yet. The 
way I want it, desire.tk will get installed in the main bin along with pd 
(by "main" I mean not the lib/pd/bin/ backhouse). It would then try to 
load pd from the same directory as itself instead of PATH. does that make 
sense?

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