[Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune on Mac

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I was able to get Cynthiune working on Panther (Mac 10.3). The old 
project was for Jaguar 10.2 and I had to upgrade the whole project to 
XCode. It now works on Tiger 10.4 too, I don't have and use newer 
stuff.
I may try my luck on my old G3 with 10.2 again :) The pain is to get 
the dependency libraries working.

I did not build all bundles, just the essentials (audiofile, MP3, ID3 
tag and audio output). The good thing is that I can thus test the 
interface, the palylist stuff and those things on Cocoa and see how 
they behave, since we had problems with them on GNUstep.

I got the stuff compiling weeks ago, but I had problems with the 
endianness: the Core Audio output bundle had to be upgraded like we did 
with all the other ones. It works for me now on my trusty iBook!
Sometimes I get hangs when changing songs with different formats, I did 
not investigate further. I find it cool to have a player that works on 
older Macs too, but our primary platform is GNUstep.

To get things compiling, I had to apply the attached patch. What do you 
think? Does it impact other platforms? It is reasonably harmless.


Accepted that, what do you think about a release? I don't think we have 
any major issues left. Musicbrainz perhaps? I don't build it myself.
GNUstep only I guess, the Mac version refers to installed libraries. I 
don-t know if it is enough to copy them inside the resources, I might 
try and anyway I can't produce a Universal Binary.

Riccardo

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