[ELECTRON] ARSS question

[Benjamin Dembroski]

Hi Ben,

On 7 Apr 2009, at 17:00, Andrew Back wrote:

> On (12:44 07/04/09), Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:49 +0100, Ben Rush wrote:
>>
>>> Michel (the author) offers a command prompt on his site that should
>>> compile the app - on OS X:
>>> 'gcc *.c -o arss -lm -lfftw3 -O2'
>>> but this returns 'no match'
>>
>> Okay, this command breaks down as "compile everything ending in .c,
>> output file is called 'arss', with the maths libraries and fftw3
>> libraries and some stuff we don't need to care about set"
>>
>> However - that won't get you a working arss.
>>
>> You'll need to install libfftw3 for it to work, which might be why it
>> crashes.
>>
>> Basically you need to download the tarball and extract it, then  
>> read the
>> INSTALL text file.  That's got the instructions on what to do  
>> (install
>> and run cmake, then make).
>
> On a Mac you should be able to get dependencies such as libfftw3 and  
> cmake
> etc via Macports and/or Fink. And you might need to install different
> versions of software you already have, via these systems (where the  
> version
> bundled with OS X is old else just weird). Multiple versions of  
> stuff can
> generally live side-by-side -- you just have to be careful setting
> environment variables such as $PATH. E.g. when building stuff that was
> developed on say Linux you might have to configure your paths to  
> binaries
> and libraries etc such that the locations installed to by Macports/ 
> Fink get
> searched first, before the OS X system directories.
>
> Alternatively, you could replace OS X with Linux, and everything  
> becomes a
> lot simpler.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
>> Gordon
>>
>>
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Just for kicks, I just tried to install ARSS on my OS X (10.5.6)  
system, using the binary installer.  Seems to work just fine...

If you want to, you are more than welcome to play around ARSS on my  
laptop to see if this is even something you want to pursue to get  
working on yours.

Email me off-list if you want to make arrangements.

--
Ben