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

[cjniven]

What version of jack did you end up installing? I’m having the same problem myself on OS X 10.12.

Thanks,

-c

> On May 4, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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