[PD] Re: New PDP/PiDiP for OSX

[Adam Lindsay]

Yves,

>> but, by the way, i received some very unfriendly mails
>> from MAC users ( consumers ) UNHAPPY with their product
>> as if they were writing to a company dealer,

It's true that there can be some culture shock between the Pd (do-it-
yourselfers) and the Mac (click, and it just works) communities. I do
hope you're not discouraged by those folks, but Pat also rightly brings
up the idea of pent-up demand and excitement.

Anyway, some hints to potential users, and comments to Sevy:

If you get an error message on startup about pdp_text not finding a
default font, try this:

 sudo cp pdp_pidip_osx/fonts/helmetr.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/


The nifty pdp_ieee1394 object looks like it isn't re-entrant yet (i.e.,
you can't create a second pdp_ieee1394 object, even in another patch
after one has been destroyed). This might show up with a bunch of lines
like "pdp_ieee1394: SGIdle failed." or "pdp_ieee1394: grabber
initialization failed". If you run into this, I think the only way to fix
it is to close pd and restart. It's not pretty, but from the commented-
out code, it seems like there's some trouble with the implementation.

It's most irritating when trying out all the nifty sample patches!

Can the Gem/OSX folks offer any insight into this?

Thanks again,
adam

>> this makes you feel like wanting to give up support for MAC,
>> if not others, more friendly,
>> would not have tried to understand what happened
>> ( why i will not give up ).
>> but, some are blacklisted here now...
>>
>> ciao,
>> sevy
>>
>>
>> Adam Lindsay wrote:
>>
>> Ivan Franco said this at Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:46:54 +0000:
>>
>>
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /sw/lib/libpng.3.dylib (No
>> such file or directory, errno = 2)
>> pd_gui: pd process exited
>>
>>
>>
>> I got the same. I used Fink to install libpng (which had some more
>> dependencies!)
>>
>> I then ran into a similar problem with ImageMagick (shared):
>> dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /usr/local/lib/
>> libMagick.6.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
>>
>> As it's in /usr/local/lib, I'm assuming Yves had built it without Fink,
>> but it's unclear how we users build it (especially as it presumably has
>> dependencies on Fink packages).
>>
>> I'm capable of building these libraries manually, but it's a real pain 
>> to
>> track down the dozens that pdp/pidip seems to rely upon, so I am really
>> looking forward to having a workable, all-included package.
>>
>>
>>
>> isn't your distribution supposed to take care of all extra required
>> libraries??
>> thanks and keep up the effort!
>> It would be great to pdp on OSX!
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree!
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>Sevy
>
>i think we are just very excited when we get an opportunity to try a new
>tool for OS X.
>Thanks for the VERY cool coding /external building you do.
>please don't be upset 
>
>cheers
>
>Patrick
>
>On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 01:35 PM, Yves Degoyon wrote:
>
>hi,
>
>oh, ok, that was this :
>i forgot to include the /usr/local/lib libraries in the tarball,
>now, it's fixed and the release is 22.6 MB ( ufff ).
>
>but, by the way, i received some very unfriendly mails
>from MAC users ( consumers ) UNHAPPY with their product
>as if they were writing to a company dealer,
>this makes you feel like wanting to give up support for MAC,
>if not others, more friendly,
>would not have tried to understand what happened
>( why i will not give up ).
>but, some are blacklisted here now...
>
>ciao,
>sevy
>
>
>Adam Lindsay wrote:
>
>Ivan Franco said this at Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:46:54 +0000:
>
>  
>
>I get the following error:
>
>dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /sw/lib/libpng.3.dylib (No 
>such file or directory, errno = 2)
>pd_gui: pd process exited
>    
>
>
>I got the same. I used Fink to install libpng (which had some more
>dependencies!)
>
>I then ran into a similar problem with ImageMagick (shared):
>dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /usr/local/lib/
>libMagick.6.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
>
>As it's in /usr/local/lib, I'm assuming Yves had built it without Fink,
>but it's unclear how we users build it (especially as it presumably has
>dependencies on Fink packages).
>
>I'm capable of building these libraries manually, but it's a real pain to
>track down the dozens that pdp/pidip seems to rely upon, so I am really
>looking forward to having a workable, all-included package.
>
>  
>
>isn't your distribution supposed to take care of all extra required 
>libraries??
>thanks and keep up the effort!
>It would be great to pdp on OSX!
>    
>
>
>I agree!
>
>adam
>  
>

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