Re: [fluid-dev] Role of glib

[josh]

Quoting Ebrahim Mayat <address@hidden>:
> > Where should we have the FluidSynth release party? ;)
>
> Well summer's nearly over so I suggest "FluidSynth Live at the
> Fillmore - Spring 2010" or maybe "Coming soon to a theater near you" ;-)


Would be neat to be able to have a real FluidSynth party.  Food, beer,  
mead or other drinks of choice and bust out some MIDI gear and make  
some noise, with FluidSynth of course!  Cross our fingers that there  
aren't any crashes or speaking tearing out of control filter  
explosions ;)


> Having just read the recent "Fluidsynth event queue and thread safety
> changes" thread, I have some basic questions:
>
> I am under the impression that the adoption of glib would be
> beneficial to addressing issues of thread safety ? So, the numerous
> utility functions in GLib (or glib) would make for easier organization
> and integration of fluidsynth's data structures and objects into one
> thread ?  If both my presumptions are true, then which specific glib
> routines would you consider for implementation ?


We're adopting glib, because it just makes things easier.  Its got  
lots of utility functions and data types which are fairly portable  
across *most* platforms.  The threading issues are kind of secondary.   
We're addressing problems that have been present all along, which  
could lead to crashes or synthesis glitches.  FluidSynth has been  
getting used in multi-thread environments, without truly being thread  
safe.


> Both glib (version 1.2.10) and glib2 (version 2.20.4) exist in the
> fink repository. So, which "glib" are you guys talking about?
>
> Concerning the iPhone, the first thought that occurred to me was that
> one could simply compile and install glib* from source on the iPhone
> OS ?
>
> http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/1370-compiling-glib.html
> http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=31611
>
> I have not yet ventured into this area but perhaps Antoine could
> clarify our thoughts on this issue.


glib works fine on OS X, in fact GTK, Swami, etc all rely on it.  The  
iPhone is a different beast though.


> So, yes autotools can be used to build glib and glib2.


Autotools is one of the things that gets blamed sometimes for making  
builds difficult on Windows, which is why I mentioned it.  Most users  
building software just want to use some sort of IDE, without having to  
have a Unix like environment.  Mac OS X already has that, so its a lot  
easier in that regard.


> I hope my questions are not irritating in their simplicity :-)


Not at all :)  Glad to be given the opportunity to clarify things.


> Regards,
> E


Regards,
Josh