[PD] Freebsd port

[Miller Puckette]

Hi all,

I'm now working on an OSX port, using portaudio for the audio part
(which also buys me directX support in Windows.)  It looks like a few
hours of work all told, once I've got over basic issues like getting hold
of a machine...

cheers
Miller

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, CK wrote:
> 
> > I read:
> > > I have ported PD to FreeBSD 4.3 (if you can call fixing a few compilation
> > > issues porting).  It runs quite well on my laptop, but I will make no
> > > garuntees that it will run on anything else.  There are some issues:
> >
> > did anyone who has access to an osx box try to compile it there ?
> >
> 
> I haven't tried this (I do have an osx box) because the sound system is
> quite a bit different.  Other than this, my assumption is that it will
> compile fairly easily.
> 
> > > 1) Full-duplex does not work and locks up my system.  This is either a
> > >    problem with the soundcard driver or the OSS emulation.
> >
> > did you succeed with any other app opening /dev/dsp rw ?
> > then you could give d13b's piperead~/write~ objects a try, though they
> > won't exactly lower the latency times ;), I'm currently using this to
> > run pd on a machine wo any soundhardware.
> >
> 
> I also wrote a minimul full-duplex test program using the native freebsd
> audio api (which is refreshingly simple and well thought out).  It also
> rebooted the system.  My assumption is that there is a bug in the drivers.
> 
> Karl
> 
> >
> > regards
> >
> > x
> >
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> >
> 
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