[LAU] No joy from KeyKit

[Paul Coccoli]

On 8/24/07, Paul Coccoli <pcoccoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/24/07, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 22:20 -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> >
> > (continuing on ...)
> >
> > did you build keykit yourself? the default linux binaries do not use the
> > rawmidi MIDI devices at all. Please read the material from README_linux
> > quoted below and get back to us/me on what version you're actually
> > using.
> >
> >
>
> I was using the key73d_linux.tar.gz from the download site (pre-built
> version 7.3d).  The readme you quote is from 7.4d.  I just downloaded
> the source of 7.4d, and it doesn't compile here.  Tons of warnings
> before finally dying on:
>
> real.c:16: error: static declaration of 'Currport' follows non-static
> declaration
> keymidi.h:77: error: previous declaration of 'Currport' was here
> make[2]: *** [real.o] Error 1
>
> What a ridiculous source package, by the way. It's a mess.  The
> recommended way to build is "make install_linux" which will try to
> build and install to /usr/local/bin, pretty much forcing you to build
> as root.  I'd fix it, but I spend all day fixing my own and other
> programmer's garbage.  I kinda hoped this would work out of the box.
> Maybe I'll get some time on Sunday to look more at it.
>

Removing the static in real.c, "chmod +x mdep/stdio/rmcr" and building
as root does the trick.

Kboom is a fun tool

sorry for all the noise