14 Jun
2015
14 Jun
'15
4:54 p.m.
On 06/14/2015 05:55 PM, Kjetil Matheussen wrote:
[..]
By the way, is there any reason to weak link on OSX
too?
The README for weak-jack indicates that it might make sense.
("However, this only works well on GNU/Linux, BSD and to some extend on
OSX.")
Is there any reason NOT to weak-link on OSX?
the required libjack may not be installed on OSX.
On GNU/Linux *BSD etc, distros take care of installing libjack along
with apps that need jack.
On OSX that's not a given. Furthermore there are 32bit/64bit only
variants of jack-osx (IIRC you have the choice between 32bit Intel + PPC
vs 32 + 64bit Intel) the architecture may not match. An application
hard-linked against libjack may not start.
Also, if you use new features (eg. the metadata API), a user may have an
old[er] version installed that misses the symbols.
best,
robin