[PD] agenda for upcoming book sprint?[GEM sprint]

[Derek Holzer]

OK, then this needs to be added to the install instructions.

D.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Mar 28, 2009, at 10:01 AM, chris clepper wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl 
>> <mailto:derek at umatic.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     ---->side note to HC: is X11 a prerequisite for GEM on OSX Pd
>>      Extended now? I saw some people at my last workshop had some
>>     missing libs with newer Pd Extended installers...
>>
>>
>> Nothing in the GEM code relies on X11, but I think the extended build 
>> is using it for freetype and/or FTGL.  Those can be statically built 
>> into the binary like we have done for GEM releases on OSX in the past. 
> 
> Gem gets linked against Apple's freetype, which is part of the X11 
> package, so that's where the requirement comes from.  It would be 
> possible to make Gem use the Fink freetype.  Mac OS X 10.5 now comes 
> with X11 installed, so this issue only applies to 10.4.  There is a 
> decent FAQ entry on how to install X11 for people with 10.4:
> 
> http://puredata.info/docs/faq/macosx
> 
> .hc
> 
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