Re: [Denemo-devel] New mingw branch

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 10:59 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> Have you tried doing a
> find target/mingw -name 'portmidi.h'
> This will confirm that it is installed.

That's just it, I did
~/gub$ find . -name "portmidi.h"
with no matches. And yet I started with a rm -rf target and then  make
denemo, all this after creating a new branch from your mingw branch and
doing git pull.

>  You can always --disable-portmidi for now in order to work on nsis.

That's a good idea.

I am guessing what caused this is that you had an old portmidi-218.zip (or whatever it is called). I think I will rename it to 218.1 or something so that gub will rebuild it (hopefully). I suppose I should not updated these files and call them the same name.
 

>  I just installed denemo-rc10 (from my gub directory) on a computer
> runnimg windows xp pro. It installed and ran fine. It seemed to not
> respond after I chose to exit without saving.

Yes, that is the portmidi hanging waiting for you to press Enter at the
console.

Ok. Is there a way to stop it. I thought we just had to turn off the debuging CFLAG. 
> having to mouse or cursor down to the note and then hitting 1. It
> still fails the wine test. Win32 is our most portable solution if its
> working in wine. This is because both mac and linux have wine.

I've never tried wine ... Is it fast enough?

Yes. It is near native speed. In most systems I don't think the difference will be noticed.

Jeremiah

Richard

>
> Jeremiah
>
> On Mar 2, 2013 10:03 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 14:43 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
>         > I have some (good?) news, one of the xp machines I tested
>         rc10 on was
>         > just now executing it perfectly: I think this machine
>         exhibited the
>         > "lost fonts" bug when I last tested it.
>         > The "lost fonts" bug seems to come and go at random. When I
>         had it a
>         > while back on the vista laptop it affected a very ancient
>         denemo
>         > 0.8.22
>         > or some such that I keep available. That is, it is in the
>         environment,
>         > not the program.
>         >
>         > So rc10 may be working on more windows systems than I
>         thought. But it
>         > does seem to be capable of rendering windows unstable in
>         some way.
>
>         I think this losing fonts may be due to the installer doing
>         something
>         wrong writing the font keys in the windows registry - that
>         would explain
>         why it affected an already installed program. Why it
>         spontaneously
>         righted itself is down to some periodic housekeeping that
>         windows does,
>         I guess. As these tests are done on machines which have had
>         Denemo
>         installed and crudely deleted multiple times, the real-world
>         experience
>         of folk may be different.
>         If I can just get to build the installer, I could do some
>         tests on the
>         nsis spec - at the moment I am stuck with the denemo configure
>         stage not
>         finding portmidi... it seems to be not in the gub tree, yet is
>         listed as
>         a dependency in denemo.py
>
>         Richard
>
>