[ELECTRON] ARSS question

[Ben Rush]

>
> Alternatively, you could replace OS X with Linux, and everything becomes a
>
lot simpler.
>

crumb, this has been an education!
For those who offered a hand -A very big thank you as these all new waters.

I didn't quite get the results I'd hoped, but good enough for now.

the summery....
• I'd already managed to install fink (as they were mentioned on the fftw
site). Installed, updated encountered GUI issues  - - so back to terminal
and my 'man fink'
• Fink wont go about installing fftw3 without installing *eight* other
packages xorg *et al* among them. Of these failed the ones relating to
Darwin and x11 failed and now x11 started behaving badly.

and ARSS still reports a Buss error - bollocks!

Without being too dramatic - i went for the nuclear option and installed
ARSS on 10.5 system -
lo and behold - Ben D is right - works like a charm <anticlimactic dramatic
pause>

As I would still like to see it work on a 10.4 system for my long term
purposes -to do this
I would need (i assume) to install fftw directly from its own tarball - but
first go into the CMakeList.txt and redirect the file paths to so they apply
to osx - need to learn more about this.

Up note:
I did  manage to install Ubuntu via Parallels - this has been my consolation
prize - yay.

All the best & and a block of nice cheese,
Ben Rush


2009/4/7 Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org>

> 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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