[linux-audio-dev] linux audio apps on OSX: successes and failures

Dear Developers, I've just spent the last couple days trying to get some of my favorite Linux audio apps running on OSX with various degrees of success or failure. I'm posting this report in the hopes that some of you could give me pointers on finishing the job, and possibly to start a dicussion of expanding some more support to OSX. Thanks for getting us this far and please read on! 1) System: * OSX Tiger 10.4 with all developers packages installed * Fink was used for most dependencies 2) Apps which I used DMG packages for with no real problems: * Ardour 0.9beta30 * JackOSX 0.71 * SooperLooper 1.0.7 * SuperCollider3 bin-20050916 * Pure Data 0.36test2-extended-RC0 3) Apps I compiled with different degrees of success: * Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.100.0 * Jack-Rack 1.4.4 * JackEQ 0.4.0 * QJackctl 0.2.18 * Jamin 0.95.0 * Rezound 0.12.2beta * Jack Timemachine 0.3.1 * MCP Plugins 0.3.0 * REV Plugins 0.3.1 * BLOP Plugins 0.2.8 * CAPS Plugins 0.2.3 * CMT Plugins 1.15 * SWH Plugins 0.4.14 * TAP Plugins 0.7.0 4) Results and Notes: * Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.100.0 Apparently successful. Starts from the command line without problem, and is installed in a different location than the JackOSX package so I don't beleive there to be a conflict. * Jack-Rack 1.4.4 Compiles without any real difficulty. However, when run it gives the following error for each plugin installed in /usr/local/lib/ladspa: plugin_mgr_get_object_file_plugins: error opening shared object file '/usr/lib/ladspa/zm1_1428.so': dlopen(/usr/lib/ladspa/zm1_1428.so, 10): Symbol not found: _libintl_dgettext Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ladspa/zm1_1428.so Expected in: flat namespace After which I get a GTK message stating that Jack-Rack could not find any LADSPA plugins and I should check my path (which is correct, BTW). Ardour gives the same error, so I assume it has something to do with my SWH compile. * JackEQ 0.4.0 Compiles fine. Gives runtime error: Fontconfig warning: line 251: invalid edit binding "same" Fontconfig warning: line 263: invalid edit binding "same" Registering as jackEQ Bus error and exits. Probably to do with SWH plugins. * QJackctl 0.2.18 Compiles and runs fine. Only problem is with initializing the CoreAudio device. My CoreAudio device has the identifier "-n Apple03DBDMAAudio:i2s-a:0", however there is no way to get QJackctl to enter that string in the startup command. Seems it can't handle CoreAudio/OpenFirmware(?) ID strings (QJackctl identitifes my card as "128" in the select menu). If Jackd or JackOSX are already running, QJackctl recognizes them and I can use the Connections menu. MIDI support is not there, of course, due to lack of ALSA. * Jamin 0.95.0 Compiles and runs fine, after some work to get it to recognize the LADSPA_PATH. Exits with the same "Bus error" message on startup, possibly due to SWH Plugins problem. * Rezound 0.12.2beta I've heard people using this on OSX, and I've even seen a commercial package for OSX using it, but I'll be damned if I can get it to compile. Here's as far as I got: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../config -I../../../src/misc -I../../../src/misc/missing/generated -I../../../src/PoolFile -g -Wall -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused -MT CNestedDataFile.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/CNestedDataFile.Tpo -c CNestedDataFile.cpp -o CNestedDataFile.o CNestedDataFile.cpp:21:2: warning: #warning parseFile doesnt need to set the filename, only the constructor and setFilename should do that CNestedDataFile.cpp:22:2: warning: #warning see about retaining the order that things were parsed in the file In file included from ../../../config/common.h:72, from CNestedDataFile.h:24, from CNestedDataFile.cpp:36: ./../../config/platform/platform.h:10:3: warning: #warning no platform determined! In file included from CNestedDataFile.cpp:45: ./../../src/misc/CPath.h:302:5: error: #error CPath::which needs to be implemented on this platform make[3]: *** [CNestedDataFile.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 [More spew available on request]. Also cannot get ./configure to recognize fftw.h and the other FFTW headers, no matter how many PATH combinations I try. * Jack Timemachine 0.3.1 Compiles and starts without problem. A half an hour ago I was getting the following: "Cannot open file for writing: Bad file descriptor", but just now when I tried again, apparently it wrote a proper w64 file. Who knew! ;-) * MCP Plugins 0.3.0 These lack a proper ./configure file, and I did not edit the Makefile at all. Compile ends with: g++ -shared mvclpf24.o mvclpf24_if.o exp2ap.o -o mvclpf24.so powerpc-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-shared' /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _main collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [mvclpf24.so] Error 1 * REV Plugins 0.3.1 Same as MCP plugs. No ./configure and ends with: g++ -shared greverb.o g2reverb.o g2reverb_if.o exp2ap.o -o g2reverb.so powerpc-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-shared' /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _main collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [g2reverb.so] Error 1 * BLOP Plugins 0.2.8 Compile ends with: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include -Iinclude -I. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -pipe -Wall -O3 -Wno-unused -DNO_DEBUG -DPIC -fPIC -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -nostartfiles -shared -lc -o adsr_1653.so adsr_1653.so.o powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-shared' /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _libintl_bindtextdomain _libintl_gettext _libintl_textdomain dyld_stub_binding_helper collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [adsr_1653.so] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 This unrecognized option '-shared' is becoming a theme, isn't it? I also wonder if there is a problem with my Fink-installed gettext, as that is the error which the SWH plugins give when a client tries to use them. * CAPS Plugins 0.2.3 No ./configure at all, I had to symlink a malloc.h to a place where it could find it, and it all ends as such: g++ -O6 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -Wall -I/usr/local/include -c Amp.cc Amp.cc:169: error: explicit specialization of 'void Descriptor<AmpIII>::setup()' must be introduced by 'template <>' Amp.cc:169: error: template-id 'setup<>' for 'void Descriptor<AmpIII>::setup()' does not match any template declaration Amp.cc:169: error: invalid function declaration Amp.cc:303: error: explicit specialization of 'void Descriptor<AmpIV>::setup()' must be introduced by 'template <>' Amp.cc:303: error: template-id 'setup<>' for 'void Descriptor<AmpIV>::setup()' does not match any template declaration Amp.cc:303: error: invalid function declaration make: *** [Amp.o] Error 1 * CMT Plugins 1.15 No ./configure at all. Issuing a "make" in the src directory yields: g++ -I/usr/local/include/ -Wall -Werror -O3 -fPIC -c -o analogue.o analogue.cpp cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors analogue.cpp: In static member function 'static void Analogue::run(void*, long unsigned int)': analogue.cpp:259: warning: 'a' may be used uninitialized in this function analogue.cpp:259: warning: 'b' may be used uninitialized in this function analogue.cpp:259: warning: 'c' may be used uninitialized in this function make: *** [analogue.o] Error 1 * SWH Plugins 0.4.14 Compiled and installed to /usr/local/lib/ladspa without a hitch, but as you can see they have caused problems for all the LADSPA hosts so far with the following: plugin_mgr_get_object_file_plugins: error opening shared object file '/usr/lib/ladspa/zm1_1428.so': dlopen(/usr/lib/ladspa/zm1_1428.so, 10): Symbol not found: _libintl_dgettext Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/ladspa/zm1_1428.so Expected in: flat namespace or simply a quieter "Bus error". Too bad, it was looking good so far... Incidentally, I also used Taybin's swh-plugins and tap-plugins DMG files and they gave me the same results. So if these DMG packages are working for someone else, then I know it's something specific to my system here (gettext perhaps?) * TAP Plugins 0.7.0 No ./configure. Compile ends with: lsgcc -I. -O3 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce -funroll-loops -ffast-math -c -fPIC -DPIC tap_autopan.c -o tap_autopan.o gcc -nostartfiles -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc -lm -lrt -o tap_autopan.so tap_autopan.o powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-shared' /usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: -Bsymbolic collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [tap_autopan.so] Error 1 5) Conclusion While writing this report I tried Taybin's pair of LADSPA DMG packages, hoping for the best, but getting the same results. So I'm hoping I've provided enough info for some of you to point me in the right direction. I'd be happy to run a "gdb" on anything you all would like to hear more about, and I'd love to hear some feedback about how to get through all this. Particularly the Rezound and SWH problems, as those are the two biggest sticking points. thx + best wishes, derek http://umatic.nl