Building PiDiP on Mac OS X WAS Re: [PD] and it's PR/Marketing, or those

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Yves Degoyon wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Yves Degoyon wrote:
>>
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Adrian wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe i'm just frustrated about my own lack of skill. I was  
>>>>>> fascinated about projects like pdp, gridflow and especially  
>>>>>> desiredata. But installing them is a hell for me as a OS X  
>>>>>> user, and the least i wanna do is search/install for all the  
>>>>>> necessary things.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Installing those programs on OSX is also a chore for me, but  
>>>>> that's mostly because I don't use OSX. I really don't have to.  
>>>>> However, if you care, you could make some effort in talking to  
>>>>> OSX users that are trying to make those things work. I've just  
>>>>> received a mail today, telling me a list of fixes to do about  
>>>>> OSX for the new makefile system which was introduced 7 months  
>>>>> ago already.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would be not hard to fix PDP and PiDiP to work with the  
>>>> nightly builds, it just a matter of making the fixes and getting  
>>>> Tom Schouten and Yves Degoyon to accept them and check them into  
>>>> CVS. The latter is usually the harder part. Tom was until  
>>>> recently accepting a number of fixes, then he disappeared again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ???
>>>
>>> pidip hasn't had any changes or fixes since one year or so,
>>> so i dunno what you're talking about
>>
>>
>> That's what I am talking about. The CVS sources don't compile on  
>> Mac OS X, or only with some skills I don't have, and that's been  
>> the case for a year or so. Ideally, it would be part of the auto- 
>> build system and Pd-extended packages. It is on GNU/Linux.
>>
> so what if i don't have a MAC OSX system at hand?
> i built it once on mac,
> ( the makefile i used then is there :
> http://tdegoyon.free.fr/pdp_pidip_osx.tar.gz )
>
> but, anyway, everything changed in makefiles for OSX,
> so, if you want it, help yourself..

I don't know if you've followed it, but there are now two Mac OS X  
systems, as well as many others, building Pd from source every night  
and reporting errors to pd-cvs.

http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/

If you are willing to include the changes to make PiDiP build on Mac  
OS X, you wouldn't even have to do the builds yourself, it would just  
happen automagically.

.hc

>
> salut!,
> sevy
>
>>> ( except your boring discourse and your tons of useless messages )
>>
>>
>> Feel free to filter or ignore my boring discourse and tons of  
>> useless messages.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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