[PD] mac ?explain?

[John Lawter]

Well, speaking only for myself: I am working on a port simply for my own
amusement, and to learn CoreAudio.  Pd also provides a neat framework to
develop ideas of my own.

Irony would be back-porting it to run on a Cube with the IRCAM DSP board
under Nextstep 3.0.

delire wrote:
> 
> i don't mean to be a snag here -  but could someone explain the quest to
> port PD to the MacOS? especially with such an established community of
> MaxMSP users - is it the evil twin syndrome or...
> for me the great benefit of PD is that under LINUX it is provides all the
> benefits of MaxMSP without being bound to the tides of the economically
> inflated Mac platform.
> 
> Is it that you have an unnegotiably strong affinity with both MacOS and PD,
> in that you would like to see them conjoined?
> eg: what are the advantages other than the noble cause of the open software
> movement - i mean, considering the history of MaxMSP and PD, a port is a
> pretty ironic don't you think?
> i guess i can appreciate a port in that context ; )
> 
> de|
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Lawter" <lawter at codefab.com>
> To: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
> Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 12:09
> Subject: Re: [PD] mac
> 
> > Actually, assuming you have Tk ( a reasonable assumption, now that there
> > is a) a rootless XFree86 build available and b) a dylib of Tk that runs
> > under X-Windows), one could simply compile the 'gui part.'
> >
> > As far as the base, I would start with Karl MacMillan's FreeBSD port. (I
> > have to admit, I haven't seen his port; my comments are based on the
> > IRIX version, from around 0.32.  But, the Mac OS UNIX layer is based on
> > 4.4BSD, so his version would be the closest)  You need to rewrite the
> > module loading section to use dylib, and alter some timing related
> > things in the scheduler.
> >
> > Then, one could use CoreAudio/CoreMIDI for the audio and MIDI portions.
> >
> > So, I guess the answer to your question is: the base part.
> >
> > florian wrote:
> > >
> > > especially, wouldnt it be possible to port it to mac os x? what is
> > > the most problematic
> > > part to port? the 'base part' or the 'gui part'?
> > >
> > > as far as the 'gui part' goes, what ever happened to the gtk gui?
> > >
> > > >Well well, that raises the following question:
> > > >Would it be too difficult to port pd to the MacOS system?
> > > >
> > > >Using portaudio there would at least be a common audio layer for
> different
> > > >kinds of platforms....
> > >
> > > --
> >