MacIntel is definitely the way that Macs are going, so Pd needs to go that way as well. I don't have access to a MacIntel box, so I can't really try my hand at it yet. I pan on buying a MacBook as my next computer, but that will be in a year or two.
That said, your help would be much appreciated, I'll do what I can to help out. To start with, I tried to document everything as much as possible, they are here:
http://puredata.org/docs/developer
I don't think that the MacIntel should cause any problems, but all of the Pd code is big and not exactly well organized, so there is a bit of a steep learning curve. Start with the docs, please, then post to the list, then maybe we can also refine the docs in the process, in addition to the build process. Each time someone tries their hand at it, we find and fix things that make it tricky.
.hc
Phil Stone wrote:
Having just gotten a MacBook Pro for my new job, I'm naturally interested in getting PD up and running on it. I've read that it was actually one of the first applications to run on the (then) brand-new Intel Macs last summer. I assume that this was core PD, and that all extended libraries would have to be recompiled.
Has anyone tried this? I'd be willing to work on it, but I'm a noob when it comes to building PD. Hans, your opinion on this would be most valuable - are you interested in distributing PD-extended for MacIntel, or is that outside your current goals? If not, could you advise me on what I'd need to do compile it?
Many thanks,
Phil Stone
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