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

[Mattia Jona-L. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi Alexander and Michael,

I managed to turn lcd4linux into lcd4mac ;) on an old mac powerbook G4
with powerPC processor and OS X 10.5.8 (the latest supported OS X
release for this processor architecture).

I compiled the X11 driver only but I included all the plugins
excluding the following:

huawei: the flag IUCLC is used in one of the functions and it is
absent in the OS X termios flags
i2c_sensors: PATH_MAX is defined in sys/syslimits.h; by including this
header everything is fine
proc_stat: OS_X doesn't have a proc filesystem so this plugin does not apply

Excluding this, everything works fine.

The libtool works a bit differently so you will have to link by hand.
Also depending on your installation the libiconv may differ. You may
want to specify the library full path when linking.

I also spotted an error in timer.h This header must include the system
header time.h or the struct timespec is undefined.
Presently time.h is included in timer.c.

Regards,

Mattia






On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Alexander van den Bosch
<atv...@ho...> wrote:
> 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
>> From: mi...@re...
>> To: atv...@ho...
>> CC: lcd...@li...
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Reinelt <mi...@re...>
>> http://home.pages.at/reinelt
>> GPG-Key 0xDF13BA50
>> ICQ #288386781
>
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