Jonathan,
Reminder, I can provide an ftp mirror at any time.
-Tres
- [email protected]
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Toby sadly Mac doesnt work that way.
>
> When it comes to making the installers it lumps everything into the
> executable if you want to call it that. that is why you just drag the file
> to the applications folder and that is it for installing.
>
> Toby is it possible to set an ftp server up to where we can store the
> source tarballs for both mac and windows and it pulls them from the server
> and obviously extract them somewhere in the source tree. Obviously this
> would need to be scripted or a check added to determine which OS we are on.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Tobias Doerffel <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> All I do is download the source tarballs from the official project
>> websites whenever there's an update and put them into a Debian package
>> where according rule and control files describe the cross compilation
>> build and package process. Examples:
>>
>>
>> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/165899765/mingw-x-fluidsynth_1.1.6-3.diff.gz
>> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/165871512/mingw-x-libvorbis_1.3.4-1.diff.gz
>>
>> Note that this procedure works only because we can cross-compile for
>> Windows. If I would build everything natively on Windows, I had to
>> write similiar scripts which extract the source tarballs, configure
>> them, build them and put the resulting binaries in a sensible location
>> and so on. I'm not familiar with OS X at all but maybe you should
>> create packages/bundles for each library (like on Linux:
>> libfluidsynth-1.1.6....deb) so when you want to build LMMS, you have
>> to install all of these bundles so that LMMS can find them. Yes, this
>> *is* lot's of work but you're talking about a proprietary platform
>> which doesn't ship free software/libraries - like Windows. It looks
>> like cross-compiling for OS X would work as well
>> (http://devs.openttd.org/~truebrain/compile-farm/apple-darwin9.txt
>> http://www.sandroid.org/imcross/) but it probably will require even
>> more initial efforts.
>>
>> BTW building with MacPorts doesn't mean it will use a faked X or
>> whatever. As long as Qt is built natively with OS backend, everything
>> should be fine. Of course inside LMMS you will not see the regular OS
>> X button style etc. but the uniform LMMS button style.
>>
>> Toby
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Aquilina
>
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