Re: Building lirc on Mac OS X?

[TJ H. <tjh...@we...>]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Kyle McKay<ma...@gm...> wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 17:48:29 PDT, TJ Harris <tjh...@we...> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any guides on building lircd (0.8.5) in Mac OS X?
>>
>> I am trying to build lircd to receive IR commands from a HDHomeRun
>> tuner via UDP, but my attempts at building in Mac OS X haven't gotten
>> me very far.
>> I see in the changelog that there are comments about compiling in Mac
>> OS.  Is there some trick to get this to work?
>
> 0.8.4a builds out-of-the-box on Mac OS X 10.5.7
>
> If you apply the patches attached to:
>
>  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105444&aid=2808075&group_id=5444
>
> (Which have already been committed to CVS) you will also be able to build
> 0.8.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.7.
>
> I build it like this (as I'm using an iguanaIR device):
>
>  ./configure --with-driver=iguanaIR --with-devdir=/tmp/lircd
> --with-syslog=LOG_DAEMON
>  make
>
> You'll probably need this though for HDHomeRun:
>
>  ./configure --with-driver=udp --with-devdir=/tmp/lircd
> --with-syslog=LOG_DAEMON
>  make
>
> The --with-syslog part is optional, but --with-devdir is required.  Also
> note that when you run it you'll need to provide a suitable
> --pidfile=filename (or -P) value.  I usually run it like this:
>
>  lircd -n -P /tmp/lircd/lircd.pid
>
> So it doesn't detach and I can monitor output.


Thanks for the response.  After the patch, 0.8.5 built fine.