Re: [Espeak-general] A Bash script to compile eSpeak on Mac OS X

[Reece D. <ms...@go...>]

On 11 November 2015 at 17:28, Alberto Pettarin <al...@re...>
wrote:

> On 11/11/2015 04:06 PM, Silas S. Brown wrote:
> > Thanks Alberto.  I had eSpeak compiled for command-line
> > use on Mac OS X for Gradint http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/gradint
> > but not for the C API (plus I haven't been able to update
> > it for a long time).  The command-line version works fine
> > for speaking text via PulseAudio, but of course it works
> > only with programs that know how to call its command line
> > (i.e. you can't set it as a system voice).
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
> I decided to write that Bash script because I was not able to find a
> complete, up-to-date procedure to compile eSpeak on OS X. In particular,
> I was able to find an old post on this mailing list with good hints, but
> still I had to figure out e.g. that "-soname" should be "-install_name"
> in the Makefile, and stuff like that.
>

I have an autotools based version of eSpeak at
https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak. It has some fixes to support Mac OS X,
but still requires a few others (i.e. the fix for missing sem_timedwait).
If you or someone can do that in a general way (i.e. via a configure check
instead of `uname = "Darwin"`), I will pull those fixes into my fork.

Thanks,
- Reece H. Dunn


> So, to save the hassle to others, I put the script on GitHub and shared
> here.
>
> (For those interested: I actually only needed the .a library file.
> Having that, I can compile it via distutils against a Python C Extension
> --- a C source file callable by Python --- in a way similar to Linux,
> where the library and header files are installed in /usr/... and hence
> are discoverable by distutils.)
>
> Alberto Pettarin
>
>
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