On Wed Feb 21, 2007 at 09:05:55AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
I was wondering if anyone has successfully used ChucK in a 64-bit environment. I can
build the app without any
complaints from the compiler, but it segfaults whenever I try running a script. Also, the
TAPESTREA program doesn't
work x86_64, the GUI appears but no elements are usable. They do look nice though. :)
https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/audicle/2007-February/000055.html
"ChucK/Audicle/miniAudicle do not yet support 64-bit. It should be okay,
however, if you run 32-bit executables. We are hoping to make it 64-bit
compatible someday soon."
i believe we'll see compatiblity sooner rather than later, given that they have a real
team focused on their projects. unlike the author of SC who got sucked into one of the 2
talent blackholes in the valley (Apple, the other being Google)..
I built and employed the JUCE library, it's the business behind the popular Tracktion
(Win/Mac only, afaik). I
successfully built and tested Kjetil's latest Mammut with it, and I must say that
it's a very attractive GUI. Beats
the tar out of the old GTK1 look. Some changes to the JUCE sources were needed, Jules
knows about them, so
hopefully the lib will soon compile for 64-bits out of the box.
SuperCollider's sclang seems to be an utterly lost cause for pure 64-bit
environments. I've set up a chroot to try
running sclang from within that space, but I've yet to put together a complete
development environment in the
chroot (I need to compile sclang there). What a PITA.
i cant find any info on how hsc/ssc/supyrcollider compares on a feature/performance level
with SCLang itself. mainly im too lazy to set up the chroot to know what i should be
comparing against (and learn haskell, python, and scheme)..
I built and tested some of the code from the EnergyXT2 site, including a couple
"native Linux VSTs" (the CMT
Bitcrusher and the Destroy FX Transverb). I could instantiate them within EnergyXT2, but
no GUIs appeared. Btw, it
seems that the EnergyXT2 devels have been working on a port of Steinberg's vstgui, it
might be worth looking into.
I'd be more interested in pursuing tests with the program, but my enthusiasm is
tempered by the lack of source
wake me up when eXT doesnt require a chroot, can load LADSPAs and LV2, doesnt crash when
connecting to jack, and you can properly open audio files, including FLACs, and has an OSC
API to control its playback/sequencing engine :) then i'd think about spending the
money ... although i'd prefer to paypal donate to a GPL project with similar specs..
code. :(
Sun has released an AMD64-happy JDK 1.5, which I've been using to run various
Java-based music and sound apps. Not
surprisingly, they work nicely. I've tested MEAPsoft, ImproVisor, and a few other
useful apps, and I plan to see
what can be done with jMusic and Phil Burk's jSyn environment. Btw, jCollider worked
well with SC3, but I'm loathe
to learn Java. Nothing against it, I'm just too busy to learn another language.
I tried to build transcode yesterday, I want to convert some AVI files to DVD format.
Alas, building the required
mjpegtools failed, and I wasn't up to chasing down the cause (more unhappiness with
64-bits, I'm sure). Anyone have
a better method for this project, maybe one that doesn't require transcode ?
transcode and mjpegtools are installed here (maybe mencoder uses them?). i didnt do
anythign special other than emerge them some time ago. in
/usr/portage/media-video/mjpegtools/files i notice
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1015 2006-08-28 17:36 mjpegtools-1.8.0-as-needed.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1092 2006-11-19 13:06 mjpegtools-1.8.0-fix-lav2mpeg.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420 2005-12-19 05:19 mjpegtools-1.8.0-gcc41.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2473 2006-11-19 12:22 mjpegtools-1.8.0-lavrec-memleak.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1186 2006-07-30 07:42 mjpegtools-1.8.0-libquicktime.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1539 2006-11-20 08:02 mjpegtools-1.8.0-no-jpeg-mmx.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2163 2006-02-05 18:47 mjpegtools-1.8.0-parallelmake.patch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423 2006-08-25 08:21 mjpegtools-1.8.0-pkg-config.patch
maybe one of those is responsible for making it compile..
Okay, peace out, ciao for now.
Best,
dp