On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 01:14:42 +0100 Ichthyostega <p...@ichthyostega.de> wrote:
>Hi Will, >Hi Kristian, > >as explained in my other message, I haven't yet given up on the goal of >eliminating unnecessary sources of numeric discrepancies in a typical >release build. > >Up to now I was in parts successful, with older compilers up to GCC-8. >The greatest roadblock is just the tedious and tricky setup to be able >to look at intermediary numbers and identify where matters go astray. > > >To help with that process, I attempted to run the tests within Docker; >for Docker I could use the existing OS images, and moreover the setup >for debugging is much simpler than with a virtual machine (or even with >a separate machine/Laptop ). > >Unfortunately this is hampered by another problem: When you start Yoshimi >with --no-gui, in fact it still *runs* the GUI, just does not *show* any >window. Which means, under Docker the startup fails, since FLTK can not >connect to any display. > >On the other hand, I see in the code those #ifdef GUI_FLTK at various >places in main.cpp and SynthEngine.cpp -- which seem to imply that in >fact Yoshimi /can/ operate without the presence of a GUI. > >The guarded parts in SynthEngine are not within the hot code path. >So probably the most tricky part could be the usages within InterChange.cpp >But especially some (but not all) of the latter do an additional check >> if (synth->getRuntime().showGui .... > > >Do you think it might be feasible to align both cases to do essentially >the same? I.e. when started with --no-gui, Yoshimi could really skip >all the GUI setup code? And also just never send updates through the >ringbuffers towards the GUI? > >-- Hermann This is a surprise. I thought we *had* ensured that no FLTK dependency remained when compiling was set for a headless build. However, a quick check seems to indicate possible contention in midi-learn. -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Yoshimi-devel mailing list Yoshimi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yoshimi-devel
