On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

Hallo!

...

I have a two week residency at STEIM coming up at the end of May
where I am going to be working on nothing but HID related stuff. Bug
reports

I installed hid this week and encountered a few things:

the build system was really confusing for me, I spent quite a time
to see how it works:

• typing "make" as in readme doesn't do much ...
• after some time I noticed, that I have to download more stuff from

cvs/packages ... why that?

I assume this layout:

http://puredata.org/docs/developer/devlayout

There are lots of other useful docs here:

http://puredata.org/docs/developer

The Pd-extended build system relies on packages/Makefile.buildlayout,
so hid does too.

• okay, then typing "make" still did not work - "make all" worked ...

I haven't updated the docs since moving the build system into the Pd- extended. The hid-specific makefile should probably be removed since
I use externals/Makefile now.

then hid alwas crashes, if I open a device and send "1" message to
start it:

• backtrace only says, that it is somewhere in hid_read (don't

remember the real name) ... then I tried to fix it with setting breakpoints in that function, but then nothing happen ... so I gave up because I had
not much time

I discoverd this behaviour all the time on various computers ... I
only have one working hid binary, compiled 1 year ago, which works
everywhere ... (but I can try to give you more information about those crashes
next week ...)

What platform? Which kernel? Which devices? Which version of [hid]?

.hc

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