[PD] Re: [Csnd] csoundapi~ and OSX

[Pat Pagano]

i can confirm TOTAL MACHINE FREEZE


On Jul 8, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Julian Peterson wrote:

> Has anyone had luck getting the csoundapi~ object to run with PD on 
> OSX?
>
> I am able to use it as long as none of the opcode libraries are loaded 
> (which significantly reduces the number of opcodes I have to work 
> with!).  As soon as I try to load a csd file which calls one of these 
> opcodes, PD crashes, and even worse, my whole system freezes.
>
> I have the opcodedir variable set correctly for using csound from the 
> terminal, but it seems aqua apps do not read .profile, only shells do. 
>  So, I've tried the following:
>
> 1) execute PD from the shell -- this doesn't seem to work since it's 
> built as an app?  It doesn't inherit the shell env variables
> 2) add opcodedir to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist -- this sets 
> environment variables for aqua apps run from my own user account.  
> I've tested this by adding a test variable and confirming it from a 
> shell.  It works, so the apps should be able to access the variables, 
> but this still doesn't work
> 3) as a last long-shot resort, I added my opcodedir to my list of PD 
> paths.  No go.
>
> I think the reason that it fails is that the PD process called by my 
> user is just a front for other processes run as root.  Since root is 
> not me, it probably doesn't inherit my env variables.  I assume the 
> root processes are MacOSX's method of enabling PD's -rt?
>
> I can think of two undesirable solutions, neither of which I've tried: 
> enable the root account and run everything as root (which I loath to 
> do), or disable the real-time features of PD.
>
> Has anyone found a better solution?  Sorry for the cross-post, but I 
> thought csound users would be more likely to have experimented with 
> this and PD users would be more likely to have a good solution : ).
>
> Julian
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Patrick Pagano, B.S., M.F.A
Digital Media Specialist
University of Floirda
Digital Worlds Institute
352-294-2082