[ELECTRON] ARSS question

[Benjamin Dembroski]

Maybe i missed this somewhere on the thread, but is the 10.4 machine a  
PPC or intel processor?

--
Ben


On 8 Apr 2009, at 14:26, Ben Rush wrote:

> 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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