Yves,
but, by the way, i received some very unfriendly mails from MAC users ( consumers ) UNHAPPY with their product as if they were writing to a company dealer,
It's true that there can be some culture shock between the Pd (do-it- yourselfers) and the Mac (click, and it just works) communities. I do hope you're not discouraged by those folks, but Pat also rightly brings up the idea of pent-up demand and excitement.
Anyway, some hints to potential users, and comments to Sevy:
If you get an error message on startup about pdp_text not finding a default font, try this:
sudo cp pdp_pidip_osx/fonts/helmetr.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
The nifty pdp_ieee1394 object looks like it isn't re-entrant yet (i.e., you can't create a second pdp_ieee1394 object, even in another patch after one has been destroyed). This might show up with a bunch of lines like "pdp_ieee1394: SGIdle failed." or "pdp_ieee1394: grabber initialization failed". If you run into this, I think the only way to fix it is to close pd and restart. It's not pretty, but from the commented- out code, it seems like there's some trouble with the implementation.
It's most irritating when trying out all the nifty sample patches!
Can the Gem/OSX folks offer any insight into this?
Thanks again, adam
this makes you feel like wanting to give up support for MAC, if not others, more friendly, would not have tried to understand what happened ( why i will not give up ). but, some are blacklisted here now...
ciao, sevy
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Ivan Franco said this at Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:46:54 +0000:
I get the following error:
dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /sw/lib/libpng.3.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) pd_gui: pd process exited
I got the same. I used Fink to install libpng (which had some more dependencies!)
I then ran into a similar problem with ImageMagick (shared): dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /usr/local/lib/ libMagick.6.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
As it's in /usr/local/lib, I'm assuming Yves had built it without Fink, but it's unclear how we users build it (especially as it presumably has dependencies on Fink packages).
I'm capable of building these libraries manually, but it's a real pain to track down the dozens that pdp/pidip seems to rely upon, so I am really looking forward to having a workable, all-included package.
isn't your distribution supposed to take care of all extra required libraries?? thanks and keep up the effort! It would be great to pdp on OSX!
I agree!
adam
Sevy
i think we are just very excited when we get an opportunity to try a new tool for OS X. Thanks for the VERY cool coding /external building you do. please don't be upset
cheers
Patrick
On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 01:35 PM, Yves Degoyon wrote:
hi,
oh, ok, that was this : i forgot to include the /usr/local/lib libraries in the tarball, now, it's fixed and the release is 22.6 MB ( ufff ).
but, by the way, i received some very unfriendly mails from MAC users ( consumers ) UNHAPPY with their product as if they were writing to a company dealer, this makes you feel like wanting to give up support for MAC, if not others, more friendly, would not have tried to understand what happened ( why i will not give up ). but, some are blacklisted here now...
ciao, sevy
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Ivan Franco said this at Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:46:54 +0000:
I get the following error:
dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /sw/lib/libpng.3.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) pd_gui: pd process exited
I got the same. I used Fink to install libpng (which had some more dependencies!)
I then ran into a similar problem with ImageMagick (shared): dyld: /usr/local/bin/pd can't open library: /usr/local/lib/ libMagick.6.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
As it's in /usr/local/lib, I'm assuming Yves had built it without Fink, but it's unclear how we users build it (especially as it presumably has dependencies on Fink packages).
I'm capable of building these libraries manually, but it's a real pain to track down the dozens that pdp/pidip seems to rely upon, so I am really looking forward to having a workable, all-included package.
isn't your distribution supposed to take care of all extra required libraries?? thanks and keep up the effort! It would be great to pdp on OSX!
I agree!
adam