[ELECTRON] ARSS question

[Ben Rush]

Ben -

It was an intel originally (my laptop) but I actually would like it to work
on a series of headless ti-books that I have for installs - so ppc 10.4 is
my ideal environment.

Ben R



2009/4/8 Benjamin Dembroski <ben at dembroski.net>

> 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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