Hi Alex.

First off, do you have Apple's developer tools installed? They are freely downloadable from https://connect.apple.com (registration required).

Alex from Idoia said this at Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:30:44 +0000:

Hello, I am on Mac OSX and I have been using the terminal for a couple of months now as it is the only way to get pd to work.

It can be a pain to do, and cryptic, too, but I believe this is a worthwhile skill to have.

At the beginning I had some difficulties to install it and I have simply downloaded the package version of pd+tk of Adma Lindsay which installed everything for me. Now, I have a bit more knowledge of terminal commands and as I have downloaded some externals from pure-data.org, I wanted to try again to install them myself. I get stuck to the particular commands where I have to type make clean then make and finally make install.

'make' is a command that is installed with the developer tools.

My terminal tells me 'command not found'. In any hope of discovering something by myself, I noticed the Makefile file in some external' s directories and try to type ./Makefile then I got the answer Permission denied(as superuser).

The 'make' command looks for a file called 'Makefile' in the current directory, and follows the instructions there. You get "Permission denied" with './Makefile' because it is not an executable file, not because you're not superuser.

I understand that has more to do with OSX/Unix language and less with pd itself, however I am sure many of you can help to answer my newbie questions. Also any reference website to learn a bit more about the command line will be most appreciated. Thanks a lot

I haven't seen the newly-published book personally, but I suspect O'Reilly's "MacOSX in a Nutshell" will be an excellent guide to this sort of thing.

good luck, adam