[PD] 0.37 and linux/jack ("official" and CVS)

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi Fernando
At 11:26 AM 29/09/2003, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>Current devel_0_37 (is this the branch to get?) does not build on linux,
>it fails while trying to compile the portaudio stuff:
>
>cc -DPD -DUNIX  -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused
>-Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch -O6 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer
>-DDL_OPEN -DUSEAPI_PORTAUDIO -DPA_USE_OSS -DPA_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>-DUSEAPI_OSS         -I../portaudio/pa_common
>       -I../portaudio/pablio -I../portaudio/portmidi-macosx -DPA_USE_ALSA
>-DUSEAPI_ALSA -DUSEAPI_JACK -DJACK_XRUN -DINSTALL_PREFIX=\"/usr/local\"
>-I. -c -o ../obj/../portaudio/pa_common/pa_allocation.o
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_allocation.c
>In file included from ../portaudio/pa_common/pa_allocation.c:34:
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_util.h:59: parse error before
>"PaHostApiTypeId"
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_util.h:59: warning: function declaration isn't
>a prototype
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_util.h:72: parse error before '*' token
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_util.h:73: warning: function declaration isn't
>a prototype
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_util.h:92: parse error before "hostApiType"
>../portaudio/pa_common/pa_util.h:93: warning: function declaration isn't
>a prototype
>make: *** [../portaudio/pa_common/pa_allocation.o] Error 1
>
>There does not seem to be any way of turning off portaudio in configure
>:-( I looked around and it seemed like the missing stuff was only
>defined for windows.
>
>I can get the "official" 0.37 version to build with a couple of patches
>that were posted to the list. But I can't get it to work with jack with
>buffer sizes < 512 (it keeps printing "Partial read" error messages). I
>found a thread in the list about this but "#define JACK_OUT_MAX 64" is
>there (instead of 512) and it does not make any difference for me... Any
>help appreciated.

I have successfully used PD with JACK at a buffer size of 64 with no 
problems. I also posted a patch to the list to fix a jack client close bug, 
which I recommend be included in the package.

Luke

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Luke Yelavich
AudioSlack Founder and main package maintainer
Audio software packaged for the Slackware Linux Distribution
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luke at audioslack.com