Hello,
TL;DR: Here's my fork of [hid] version 0.7.1 that needs no XCode to build on Mac OS X (10.11.6 on my end, hopefully on later macOSses too):
https://gitlab.com/aaaaalbert/pd-hid
It's based on https://git.puredata.info/cgit/svn2git/libraries/hid.git/
Long version: I'm just re-learning Pd and decided it would be a good idea to build it on my ageing Mac (which went marvelously!), and also build [hid] which didn't go that smoothly for me.
In the versions of [hid] that I inspected [1], it requires XCode to build on Darwin, as the Makefile [2] passes to xcodebuild an XCode project file [3], lets XCode do its thing, then continues. I couldn't get my version of XCode to use the project file, running into this error:
``` xcodebuild: error: Unable to read project 'HID Utilities Slib.pbproj'. Reason: Project file 'HID Utilities Slib' was written by an unsupported Xcode version (38) ```
I soon gave up on hacking the project file and instead wrote a sub-Makefile for the Mac parts [4], adapted the main Makefile [5], and voilà! I can use a spare JoyCon game controller to feed button presses to my patches.
I've built and manually tested my version of [hid], tentatively labeled 0.7.3, both on Mac (OS X 10.11.6) and Linux (Xubuntu 19.10) with PureData 0.50-2 as tagged on GitHub [6].
Outlook: I'm thinking of adding accelerometer support for the game controller, and perhaps sort out the values that hatswitches produce on different OSses.
Thanks, Albert.
[1] Here are the different versions / forks of [hid] that I found: * 0.7.1 --> https://git.puredata.info/cgit/svn2git/libraries/hid.git (That's the one I based my work on.) * 0.7 --> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pure-data/files/libraries/hid/hid-0.7.tar.g... (as linked from the Pd wiki) * 0.7 --> https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/pd/pd-hid/ * 0.7.1 --> https://github.com/agraef/purr-data/blob/master/externals/hid/
Binary releases from deken: * 0.7.1 --> http://puredata.info/Members/zmoelnig/software/hid/ * 0.7.1 --> http://puredata.info/Members/chr15m/software/v0-0extended/hid/
[2] original Makefile: https://git.puredata.info/cgit/svn2git/libraries/hid.git/tree/Makefile#n200
[3] XCode project file: https://git.puredata.info/cgit/svn2git/libraries/hid.git/tree/HID%20Utilitie...
[4] sub-Makefile for Mac build, not using XCode: https://gitlab.com/aaaaalbert/pd-hid/-/blob/osx-build-without-xcode/HID%20Ut...
[5] adapted main Makefile: https://gitlab.com/aaaaalbert/pd-hid/-/blob/osx-build-without-xcode/Makefile
[6] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/releases/tag/0.50-2