In article <4f501b7f.3060...@chrisarndt.de>, Christopher Arndt <ch...@chrisarndt.de> wrote:
> On 02.03.2012 01:07, Russell E. Owen wrote: > > My problem is that I just can't figure out how to build portmidi from > > source -- at least on Mac OS X 10.4 (which is my usual platform for > > building such installers, as it turns out to be more reliably backward > > compatible) with gcc 4.0.1 (required for Mac OS X 10.4). The > > instructions are here: > > <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/portmedia/wiki/Installing%20portmidi%20 > > on%20Mac> but they don't work. > > What exactly isn't working? The instructions on the wiki are bogus, yes, > but I was able to build portmidi from SVN on 10.6 with the following > sequence of commands: > > svn co > https://portmedia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/portmedia/portmidi/trunk > portmidi > cd portmidi > cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" > make > > (Note: there's no '.' (dot) after the make command.) > > This gives me libportmidi_s.a and libportmidi.dynlib, libpmjni.dynlib > and the test programs compiled as well. I tested MIDI output with the > 'test' program and fluidsynth and everything seemed ok. > > I had installed a few programs and libraries with MacPorts before so I > already had all the dependencies, in particular "cmake". I think cmake > used the default C compiler gcc-4.2, but you should be able to specify > the compiler to use with: > > cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -G "Unix Makefiles" > > (I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do this, but it seems to work.) > > You may also need to set the SDK and the min OS X version (whatever that > means) to use: > > cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 \ > -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-mmacosx-version-min=10.4 \ > -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT:PATH=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk \ > -G "Unix Makefiles" > > Let me know, if these instructions work for you on 10.4 or if you want > me to send you the static library compiled with gcc-4.0 and the above > settings, to check if they work on 10.4. > > > > Chris Thank you very much. I'll give that a try and let you know how it goes. If it fails then I'll certainly be interested in trying a library from you if you can provide a static library. -- Russell
