I look forward to trying this with the students next semester.
Many have MacBooks and installing xcode is quite a pain.
Building simple audio programs with pure:dyne could be very useful. 
Cheers Karsten,

Andy



On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:56:00 -0700
Karsten Gebbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Faust is lovely, but at some point a line must be drawn
> > to stop sideways creep (Faust now begs for GtK to build
> > pretty interfaces etc)
> 
> good point :)
> 
> > 
> > libasound and libjack devs, yes as part of a minimal
> > pedagogical space to start building audio apps. But retain
> > the vision of pure:dyne as an end user distro, that incidentally
> > can be used to do very simple C programming for students.
> 
> I agree, but I would think that supplying tools for DSP development such 
> as faust fits quite well within the contraints of what our intended 
> end-user/developer audience are.
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:05:39 -0700
> > Karsten Gebbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Andy Farnell said :
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > For audio DSP fundamentals we often do one or two lectures
> > > > starting in C, making sine waves, reading wav files etc.
> > > > It would be nice to know pure:dyne had a minimal build environment
> > > > including libsndfile, if space allows.
> > > 
> > > yeah, that seems like a good idea. I also vote for libjack-dev and 
> > > probably libasound-dev since its quite nice and easy to create small 
> > > audio apps that use jack. I can't see faust in the distro either, 
> > > should/could that be included?
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:24:30 +0200
> > > > Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Karsten Gebbert said :
> > > > > > JIMMY THE SQUID said :
> > > > > > >      first off let me say that pure dyne leek and potato is the 
> > > > > > > most efficient
> > > > > > > multi-media system i have come across! it outperforms my 
> > > > > > > expectations (i am an
> > > > > > > audio engineer) on a daily basis.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > >      now for my question,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > i am in the process of learning C and i am doing the whole make a 
> > > > > > > text file in
> > > > > > > NANO and compiling with GCC. i had been using other flavors of 
> > > > > > > linux to do this
> > > > > > > but pure dyne has become my main system and i decided i would do 
> > > > > > > my learning
> > > > > > > with it as well.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > there is one problem however, when i compile my simple programs 
> > > > > > > GCC sends back
> > > > > > > an error "stdio.h: no such file or directory". so that leads me 
> > > > > > > to believe pure
> > > > > > > dyne does not contain this library by defaualt. my question is 
> > > > > > > what debian
> > > > > > > package contains libraries for C? i have searched stdio.h to no 
> > > > > > > avail. any
> > > > > > > suggestions would be appreciated. thanks for pure dyne! 3l3vans
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I think the package that needs to be installed for this is 
> > > > > > libc6-dev 
> > > > > > (right?). I'm not sure right now if its on the package list and 
> > > > > > installed, but could you double check in /usr/include whether its 
> > > > > > there? 
> > > > > > Do you use a -I/usr/include argument with gcc? In any case, I think 
> > > > > > that 
> > > > > > we won't necessarily be able to include these dev packages in the 
> > > > > > CD iso 
> > > > > > image, as space is always an issue and we try to put only the main 
> > > > > > apps. 
> > > > > > I think it should go on the DVD image though. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Although it might be a good thing to have a working environment to
> > > > > compile small bits of C... IMHO we should add it if it's missing and 
> > > > > see
> > > > > if it fits :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > a.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ---
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> > > > 
> > > > 
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> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
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