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

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

Wow Mattia,
This was exactly the info I was hoping for, thank you so much! Gonna give it a go next week and will report back. Thanks and merry Christmas to you all, Alexander> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:32:13 +0100
> Subject: Re: [lcd4linux] Compiling on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
> From: mat...@gm...
> To: atv...@ho...
> CC: mi...@re...; lcd...@li...
> 
> 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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