Re: [AD] Status update on things I'm supposed to be looking into

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Oct 2008, at 22:26, Peter Wang wrote:
> Well, we have to tell CMake which libraries to link against anyway and
> we do that by building up a list.  The mangling shouldn't be too  
> hard to
> fix by modifying these lines:
>
>     foreach(lib ${PLATFORM_LIBS})
>         if("${lib}" MATCHES "^-l|^/")
>             set(LIBS "${LIBS}${lib} ")
>         else("${lib}" MATCHES "^-l|^/")
>             set(LIBS "${LIBS}-l${lib} ")
>         endif("${lib}" MATCHES "^-l|^/")
>     endforeach(lib)

Those are the ones. The problem is that PLATFORM_LIBS contains the  
full path to the framework, so it's a question of turning /System/ 
Somewhere/Someplace/Somethingorother/library.framework into - 
framework library. Easy to do with regular expressions, but I have to  
look up how they work in CMake and haven't got round to that yet.
(Right now there are two libraries in the list listed as -framework,  
but that's actually wrong; there's an "OS X person should look at  
this" comment in the bit that sets it up; I have a proper fix for  
that, I'll try to commit that tonight).

> Sounds good.  Direct access might be important, but I don't know how
> that would work.

Well, A4 does have an API that doesn't involve the line pointers  
directly. I presume that could be used to wrap around A5's way of  
bitmap locking. Not the first thing I'm going to implement though. ;)

> Yes.

Ok. I'll get what I have into a state where others can look at it,  
then add it to the repository. Estimated timescale: a week or two,  
maybe three (fingers crossed).

> To me, it sounds bad so I don't care.  But 4.9 doesn't have a MIDI  
> addon
> so a DIGMID driver might be out of place ;)

Well, my idea was to implement MIDI support through a DIGMID addon. ;)
I'm not sure I know enough about MIDI to implement a better driver  
than A4's, but I can certainly try. Estimated timescale: sometime  
after the estimated two or three weeks mentioned above. :P

Evert