J.R. Schulz writes:
hello miller, jason, garry, and anyone elso who may have experience with this,
Hi j.r., I`ve only "glanced" through your email .. some answers maybe....
- Endian issue:
I have to look into this myself, generally endianess should not be a problem ... if it is, pd will issue a message like "OSS: Could not set DSP format"
i think i've got the makefile editing down ok. i guess all you've got to do is point pd to where the egcs lib's are, yes? somewhere inside the /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ directory?
do a "make depend", and you should not have to do any makefile editing..
i don't think these were included on the default installation, but i should be able to find and install them, i think. please confirm that i am indeed on the right track here. i apologize for my ignorance of this operating system; please feel free to consider me a prepubescent in the land of linux.
ULTIMATELY what i'd like to do, just because i'm curious is find out if pd would be portable to os x. does pd rely on things that are linux specific? or could os x's bsd layer and unix/next roots and such allow some amount of compatibility? pd for linux and pd for irix are obviously different because of the difference in the os, so obviously some amount of editing would have to take place, but how much? impossible? or just really difficult? or just not worth it?
pd is not OS dependent, it just needs an average amount of changes. The hardest part will be the sound and MIDI I/O, all other things only require minimal editing (especially on a unix like environment).
Guenter