Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari 1.6.1 test build for Mac OS X

["Stefan Meier" <stefan_meier99@xxxxxx>]

Jerome's build is definitely the best choice! My build runs on 10.6 and 10.7 only, too. But it would be nice to find a stable setup for the future builds, but after all it doesn't seem to be as easy as anticipated... ;-)

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:59:14 -0600
> Von: Bob Carpenter <bcripon89@xxxxxxxxx>
> An: hatari-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari 1.6.1 test build for Mac OS X

> @Stefan - I would agree that my build would be likely to fail if X11 were
> not installed. Also, my build is limited to Intel 10.6 and 10.7. If
> Jerome's build is completed, that sounds like the best answer. If he
> builds
> SDL from the current 1.2.15 pre-release source code, I am concerned that
> the same crash will occur if you make a change that forces Hatari to be
> reset.
> 
> @Eero - I was just surprised by how much the video capture slowed down
> Hatari's responsiveness. I do not have a RAID array. However, I do have a
> 2.7Ghz Core i5 with a 7200rpm drive. Since I do not anticipate doing video
> captures in the future, the performance hit is not a concern for me.
> 
> 
> Bob C
> 
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Stefan Meier <stefan_meier99@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Might be hard to find ready to use frameworks for the required libs. For
> > libpng there is a precompiled framework available here:
> > http://ethan.tira-thompson.com/Mac_OS_X_Ports.html (although even this
> > one is actaully outdated). For the other libraries I didn't find
> up-to-date
> > frameworks.
> >
> > So I guess we would need to build the frameworks ourself (easy with SDL,
> > perhaps not so easy with the other packages, never tried this before).
> >
> > Another option would be to bind statically with the libs (if supported).
> I
> > think this would require a new xcode project without cmake? (I must
> confess
> > I am not familiar with cmake and it is a little bit confusing)
> >
> > BTW, I tried to make a build with the 10.5 SDK, but failed, because some
> > functions names in the readline seem to be named different (on 10.6 it
> is
> > _rl_complete_function, on 10.5 it is only complete_function). Did you
> > compile your build on Leopard?
> >
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > > Datum: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:01:38 +0100
> > > Von: Jerome Vernet <vernet.jerome@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > An: hatari-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Betreff: Re: [hatari-devel] Hatari 1.6.1 test build for Mac OS X
> >
> > > I've just tested on my G4 MDD my ppc build( done on the MacBook): it
> > > fail, with an incompatible version of libpng. really a pain in... I
> > > need the frameworks version of libpng, libz and libreadline, as these
> > > dynamic library depend of the developper package installed or not...
> > > With the Framework embedded in the app, it will be ok !
> > >
> > > I don't know if portaudio is really needed ? Same for readline, as we
> > > do not use really the text debugger (well, you can, if you launch
> > > Hatari thru the commande line).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dyld Error Message:
> > >    Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib
> > >    Referenced from: /Volumes/Hatari/Hatari.app/Contents/MacOS/Hatari
> > >    Reason: Incompatible library version: Hatari requires version
> > > 47.0.0 or later, but libpng12.0.dylib provides version 45.0.0
> > >
> > > JV
> > >
> > > Le 15 janv. 12 à 16:56, Bob Carpenter a écrit :
> > >
> > > > @Stefan: When I use "otool", I see that libpng is referenced.
> > > > However, it refers to /usr/X11/lib so I am assuming it is not
> > > > included in the executable like the SDL framework. I have tried the
> > > > mono monitor switch several times without having it fail. However, I
> > > > agree with you that Jerome's executables are the best choice to host
> > > > at tuxfamily. For one, he has the only PPC build.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bob C
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On sunnuntai 15 tammikuu 2012, Bob Carpenter wrote:
> > > > > I had never tried the video capture before. It did seem to slow
> down
> > > > > Hatari significantly. I was trying to play Llamatron 2112 with the
> > > > video
> > > > > capture on and it was very sluggish. I was playing Hatari in a
> > > > window
> > > > > rather than full screen. However, the video file itself was full
> > > > speed.
> > > >
> > > > There are two things affecting its performance:
> > > >
> > > > * Video frame compression in PNG format
> > > >  - Faster CPU or SIMD accelerated[1] PNG library could help
> > > > * Disk write speed
> > > >  - Faster disk (RAID array?) would help
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        - Eero
> > > >
> > > > [1] PNG compression isn't something that's easily SIMD accelerated
> > > >    unlike e.g. JPEG which is matrix based compression method.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >