[PD] Gem OSX10.6 (was Re: Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 11, 2011, at 3:36 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2011-07-06 04:35, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> esources/Scripts/../extra/Gem/Gem.pd_darwin,
>>>
>>> 10): Symbol not found: __Z10initGemWinv
>>>   Referenced from:
>>> /Applications/Pd-0.43.1-extended-20110705.app/Contents/Resources/ 
>>> Scripts/../extra/Gem/Gem.pd_darwin
>>>
>>>   Expected in: dynamic lookup
>>>
>>> Gem: can not load library
>>
>> no 64-bit builds of Gem on Mac OS X yet,
>
> well, obviously there _are_ 64-bit builds for OSX, however they are
> non-functional - as demonstrated above. afaik, the only crucial  
> missing
> part is the window handling (for which there are some prototypes, but
> nothing really working yet)
>
>> but it should be possible to
>> get a gstreamer/gmerlin based 64-bit Gem Mac OS X build out without  
>> too
>> much work, with IOhannes' new plugin backend.
>
> gstreamer support should be trivial to add to the OSX build nowadays:
> only configure with "--with-gmerlin_avdec" (or without the "-- 
> without-ALL").
>
> nevertheless, there still won't be a window :-(



>> Or even better, someone
>> could write Gem plugins for the Quicktime APIs that Apple did not  
>> port
>> to 64-bit.
>
>
> well, actually there are plugins for the (non-64bit) QuickTime API -
> it's what is used nowadays.
> this however only means, that once we have the window stuff sorted  
> out,
> Gem will be available on OSX-10.6/64bit without support for
> video/movie/image loading/saving (as those are depending on QT) -  
> unless
> some other plugin (e.g. gmerlin/imagemagick) is available.
>
> so rather than writing plugins for the (deprecated) QuickTime API,
> people should write plugins for the (afaiu: supported and featured)
> QTKit API (which is available on both 32bit and 64bit)


Yeah, that's what I meant, it came out wrong.

.hc


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