Re: [lcd4linux] Compiling on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[Alexander v. d. B. <atv...@ho...>]

Excellent, thanks for the quick reaction. Long term plans look like I'll have some hardware running Linux one day, but at the moment all I have is a Mac. Macports has allowed me to compile and run lots of useful Linux applications like GIMP etc. so I thought why not see if I could get lcd4linux up and running too? I was also encouraged by the fact that this guy seemed to have done it too last year. http://www.civade.com/post/2010/11/10/Installer-afficheur-LCD-44780-lcd4linux-NAS-ReadyNAS-Netgear  Being a (.NET) programmer by trade I'm not afraid of the usual digging work that comes with an exercise like this, but manual Linux compiling is fairly new to me, so hence this check for possible blind spots on my side. Anyway, thanks for the suggested compilation options and the smoketest script, which I hadn't noticed yet. I'm certainly going to give them a spin! Best regards, Alexander> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:24:40 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [lcd4linux] Compiling on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
> 
> Hello Alexander,
> 
> > I'm currently trying to compile lcd4linux on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I'd like to try it with the X11 driver to
> > see what it can do for me, and maybe to try and write my own lcd4linux plugin. Unfortunately I can't get the svn trunk
> > to build successfully on my machine at the moment.
> >
> > Before going into details I'd like to know if what I want to achieve is possible at all? And if so, are there specific
> > caveats I might be unaware of?
> 
> I don't know. First, guess why lcd4linux has "linux" in its name :-)
> 
> I know that some BSD guys failed long time ago.
> 
> Maybe some x86 specific low-level port access stuff in drv_parport will fail (which should be removed anyway)
> 
> you may find the scsript "smoketest.sh" useful, because it will try to compile lcd4linux with all possible combinations 
> of sinlge driver / single plugins.
> 
> As a first try, I would try to compile it --with-drivers=null --with_plugins=none to make sure there isn't a very basic 
> problem somewhere.
> 
> 
> 
> regards, Michael
> 
> 
> 
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