Re: [Denemo-devel] The 1.0 release

[Jeremiah Benham]

On 01/22/13 11:01, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:27 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > I wrote autotools files for portmidi and created a tarball of it. At the
> > moment it only compiles for linux. I then created a gub file. You can
> > see that in gub/specs/portmidi.py after doing a git pull. Once I have
> > this working for windows also we can remove
> > portmidi from denemo. I think it is a mess anyway. Is there any reason
> > to keep it with out code if we get this working reliably?
> No, no reason at all - but I am puzzled how the libraries libsmf etc are
> being found (presumably!) while libportmidi is not - the files from
> configure.ac downwards appear to be in order. What mystifies me is the
> autogen.sh step - you said IIRC that gub does not do it - how does it
> get the makefiles if not?
>
> > I am currentan ly uploading denemo-1.0.0.~rc.7-3.linux-x86 that I just
> > created linking against this libportmidi.la that was created from this.
> > I tested and confirm that portmidi is working this way in the linux
> > build.
> I just downloaded denemo-1.0.0.~rc.7-3.linux-x8 and installed it on my
> debian stable box. It errors at startup like this:
>
>   denemo
> /home/rshann/bin/denemo: 41: cannot create : Directory nonexistent
> /home/rshann/denemo/usr/bin/denemo: error while loading shared
> libraries: libportmidi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory

Thats weird. I compiled libportmid in a .la. If I am not mistaken this 
is static lib. I found this website talking about libs and .la files:
http://openbooks.sourceforge.net/books/wga/dealing-with-libraries.html
If that is true that it is static, then it need not be distributed. I 
just edited the portmidi.py and created a portmidi tarball for win32. 
You can find this file after a git pull and looking at 
gub/specs/portmidi.py. I compiled a mingw build and linked against it. i 
have not listed it in the denemo.py as a dependency because it has not 
been tested enough. I am not sure if the files listed in dependencies 
determine if it is distributed in the binary or not.

I just uploaded a mingw binary linked against this lipbortmidi:
denemo-1.0.0.~rc.7-4.mingw.exe

> and indeed there is no libportmidi in ~/denemo/usr/lib where the others
> are.
>
> Richard