pd and ppc: the final battle..?
Guenter Geiger
geiger at epy.co.at
Wed Mar 1 10:10:59 CET 2000
J.R. Schulz writes:
> hello miller, jason, garry, and anyone elso who may have experience with
> this,
>
Hi j.r., I`ve only "glanced" through your email .. some answers maybe....
1) Endian issue:
I have to look into this myself, generally endianess should not be a
problem ... if it is, pd will issue a message like
"OSS: Could not set DSP format"
>
> i think i've got the makefile editing down ok.
> i guess all you've got to do is point pd to where the egcs lib's are, yes?
> somewhere inside the /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ directory?
do a "make depend", and you should not have to do any makefile editing..
> i don't think these were included on the default installation, but i should
> be able to find and install them, i think.
> please confirm that i am indeed on the right track here.
> i apologize for my ignorance of this operating system; please feel free to
> consider me a prepubescent in the land of linux.
>
> ULTIMATELY what i'd like to do, just because i'm curious is find out if pd
> would be portable to os x.
> does pd rely on things that are linux specific?
> or could os x's bsd layer and unix/next roots and such allow some amount of
> compatibility?
> pd for linux and pd for irix are obviously different because of the
> difference in the os, so obviously some amount of editing would have to take
> place, but how much?
> impossible?
> or just really difficult?
> or just not worth it?
pd is not OS dependent, it just needs an average amount of
changes.
The hardest part will be the sound and MIDI I/O, all other
things only require minimal editing (especially on a unix like
environment).
Guenter
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