The problem I'm having is that it insists on trying to use Mac OS X 10.5 SDK, which doesn't even exist on my operating system (I'm trying to build this on Mac OS X 10.4, to assure backward compatibility, and I only have 10.3.9 and 10.4 SDKs installed). That's clearly not going to work.
I have tried everything I can think of, based on google searches, including: $ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 $ export CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 $ export CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4.sdk and even running the CMake GUI and overriding the path to the SDK before pressing Generate. It ignores everying and always uses a path to the nonexistent 10.5 SDK. I don't know if this is a bug in CMake 2.8.6 or if portmidi's config insists on 10.5 or later. It's presumably practical to build a binary installer for python.org's 64-bit python (Mac OS X 10.6 and later) that includes portmidi. I'm not sure it's doable for the 32-bit python.org python (MacOS X 10.3.9 and later) -- at least not without giving up 10.4 compatibility. -- Russell On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Christopher Arndt (by way of "Russell E. Owen" <ro...@uw.edu>) 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
