[fluid-dev] Re: FluidGUI on OS X

[Ken Ellinwood]

It might not be a simple matter to enable the TCP command port for OS-X.  The
command port logic is currently written to assume that all I/O with the client
can be accomplished via read() and write() using the file descriptor returned
from the socket open call.   This definetly does not work on Windows, where
send() and recv() must be used.  The question is, what does the socket API look
like on OS-X?  Will read() and write() work to perform I/O over the socket?  If
yes, then simply rebuild fluidsynth with the TCP server enabled (in
config_macosx_pb.h, comment out the #define WITHOUT_SERVER line).

At one point I had planned on providing a patch for fluidsynth that would
introduce the necessary polymorphism required in order to support the command
shell on the terminal and over sockets.    Its not a small task, and now that
Peter has started an effort to provide a JNI interface to fluidsynth, its more
likely that a true cross-platform implementation of FluidGUI will rely on the
JNI interface and not the TCP command shell interface.

Ken

--- Ebrahim Mayat <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have managed to install FluidGUI on my Apple Macintosh using the 
> fluidgui-0.8.2-linux installer. I also have a very recent version of 
> java installed on my machine.
> 
> % java -version
> java version "1.4.2_03"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-117.1)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-34, mixed mode)
> 
> The only problem is when I run fluidgui in X11, I get all the widgets 
> but I am unable to load any soundfonts. You mentioned in the README 
> document that the TCP command port feature of fluidsynth is not 
> currently available in the Mac version. If you could enable this 
> feature, I'd be more than happy to try it out on my machine.
> 
> Regards.
> Ebrahim 
> 



        
                
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