[PD-dev] trying to compile Pd on OS X (10.11)

[Roman Haefeli]

On Don, 2017-05-04 at 14:02 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2017-05-04 13:30, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > 
> > Hey all
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile current Pd for Mac on a 10.11.6 machine. And
> > I'm
> > stuck at linking stage:
> > 
> >  [...]
> > 
> > I got jack from homebrew. 
> > 
> > This is how I try to compile Pd:
> > 
> > $ ./autogen.sh
> > $ ./configure --enable-jack
> > $ make -j
> > 
> > Interestingly, also Pd-0.47-1.app can't find jack. When I try to
> > switch
> > audio to jack, I get the following message in the Pd console:
> > 
> >   Can't open Jack (it seems not be installed on this Mac)
> > 
> > How does Pd detect whether jack is installed and running?
> i think (on OSX) it relies on the Jackmp.framework (available from
> [1],
> though i believe newer versions can be found at [2]) to be installed
> (and does weak linking, so it can work even if the framework is not
> installed).
> i also think that homebrew does not install the jack.framework, but
> rather some traditional libjack.so.
> Pd's configure.ac hardcodes this into src/Makefile.am, which makes it
> somehow hard to override :-(

Thanks a lot, IOhannes. Both works now, I can compile Pd and Pd (either
compiled or installed as app) can connect to jack now.

You made my day :-)

Roman
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