Re: [Nyquist-users] compiling nyquist and mailing list issues

[Roger D. <rb...@cs...>]

  On 10/3/10 5:15 PM, David wrote:
> That's the version I tried (portaudio19-dev), but it didn't help.
> Raymond mentioned he had a similar problem at some point, but didn't
> seem to remember exactly how he resolved the problem.
>
> I'll try the Ubuntu package, maybe it will work on EasyPeasy, since
> it's based on Ubuntu. I didn't even know there was one. Neither the
> Nyquist manual nor the the project page on SourceForge make any
> mention of packages for Linux, at least not that I remember seeing.
I didn't know an Ubuntu package existed either -- I just found it. I'm 
not the one that created/contributed it, but I'm happy it's there (if it 
works).
> I don't know if the various packages for Audacity and PureData are
> really different packages, or if it's just the same package being
> pushed to different repositories. The 32-bit and 64-bit versions would
> be different, of course.
I was surprised to find 64-bit versions at all -- if anyone knows 
anything about these, please get in touch.
> Do you agree that Nyquist isn't really intended to be used by
> non-programmers or non-techies? I don't know if it's any harder to
> learn than Csound, which is used by a fair number of composers.
Yes, Nyquist is for programmers, but I think you don't have to be much 
of a programmer, and if you can put together CSound patches, you should 
be able to compose Nyquist behaviors. I think Nyquist is much simpler 
and more regular than C-sound, but perhaps the restrictions in C-sound 
(non-nested instruments, instruments and scores are separate languages 
with their own special syntax) is actually an advantage for beginners. 
I'm not sure.
     -Roger

> David.
>
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Roger Dannenberg<rb...@cs...>  wrote:
>>   On 10/2/10 6:50 PM, David wrote:
>>> But now I'm getting another error, and it doesn't look like it's due
>>> to a missing package.
>>>
>>> portaudio/pa_unix/pa_unix_hostapis.o:(.data+0x0): undefined reference
>>> to `PaAlsa_Initialize'
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>
>>> ...
>>> I tried googling for the latest error too, but couldn't find anything
>>> that seemed relevant.
>> PaAlsa_Initialize() is in PortAudio. I'm not sure why you got this error
>> since there is a copy of PortAudio sources in the Nyquist sources. You can
>> also use a newer version of PortAudio (v19).
>>> David.
>>>