hi all,
sorry if this is old news and i just couldn't find it in the archives. just started up again on an old project and was looking into getting serial into osx. back in july 2004 martin pichlmair compiled a version of comport for osx (just by adding to the malkefile) after i posted about it but i didn't have any luck then. it loaded but couldn't find the device. with a little more knowledge now i tried again with the same binary (latest version pd on osx 10.4) and found that all i had to do was create a symbolic link so that comport could find it:
ln -s /dev/tty.USA19H2b2P1.1 /dev/ttyS0 (i just did "ls /dev/tty.*" to find the devicename)
for what i'm doing it's running as well as on linux! the comport source should definitely be updated to include this. although i still have all the source files from martin back then doing this is beyond my expertise. i'd be more than happy to add a sub-patch to the comport help for osx users though
thanks again martin - sorry it took me so long to get around to figuring it out!
cheers, rene.
p.s. thanks to winfried ritsch for comport too!