Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth and midishare on OSX (again)

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Dougie McGilvray wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build a fluidsynth binary to run on OS-X for a user  
> without fink/X windows etc who need its microtonal and soundfont  
> support.
>
> We have Jack 0.100.1 installed and running OK.
> We have Midishare 1.90 installed and running OK (at least,  
> msControler works).
>
> When I configure fluidsynth according to http://lists.gnu.org/ 
> archive/html/fluid-dev/2005-08/msg00001.html, it complains a lot  
> about a midishare confidence test failing. On investigation, the  
> config log is reporting problems with Byte not being declared  
> properly: I added -D__Types__ on to the CFLAGS to work around that.
>
> Here's my configure line:
>
> ./configure --enable-midishare --enable-functioncheck --enable- 
> debug - --enable-profiling --enable-jack-support --disable-readline  
> "CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -I/sw/include - -I/System/Library/ 
> Frameworks/MidiShare.framework/Versions/A/Headers - -I/System/ 
> Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/Headers - -I/ 
> Library/Frameworks/Jack.framework/Headers -D__Types__" "LDFLAGS=-L/ 
> usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib -framework MidiShare -framework CoreAudio - 
> framework Jack"
>
> and here's what configure reports:
>
> **************************************************************
> Summary:
> ALSA:                  no
> OSS:                   no
> MidiShare:             yes
> JACK:                  no
> CoreAudio:             yes
> LADSPA support:        no
> LADCCA support:        no
> Readline:              yes
> Debug:                 yes
> Profiling:             yes
> use long long:         no
> Pentium 3+ SSE:        no
> **************************************************************
>
> (shame it's still picking up readline lib from fink, but I can  
> always put that on the target machine too I suppose).
>
> The executable builds and links cleanly, but on running:
>
> dh176-215:~/Builds/fluidsynth-1.0.6 nick$ fluidsynth -m midishare
> fluidsynth: debug: Using 'coreaudio' audio driver
>
> fluidsynth: debug: sampleRate 44100
> fluidsynth: debug: mFormatFlags 0000000B
> fluidsynth: debug: mBytesPerPacket 8
> fluidsynth: debug: mFramesPerPacket 1
> fluidsynth: debug: mChannelsPerFrame 2
> fluidsynth: debug: mBytesPerFrame 8
> fluidsynth: debug: mBitsPerChannel 32
> fluidsynth: error: Couldn't find the requested midi driver
> Failed to create the MIDI thread; no MIDI input
> will be available. You can access the synthesizer
> through the console.
> fluidsynth version 1.0.6
> Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Peter Hanappe and others.
> FLUID Synth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; see the COPYING file for details.
> SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.
>
> Type 'help' to get information on the shell commands.
>
> and there is no MIDI :(
>
> I have searched through the archives without success, so any help  
> qould be much appreciated.

Hi Dougie

Three  things:

Have you installed pkgconfig in /usr/local ?

Check your $PATH variable. I suspect that "/usr/local/bin" is not in  
your path. If you are building in bash you can set your PATH using  
the "export PATH" command or in tcsh use the "set path" command.  
Either way, you need to edit your .bash_profile or .tcshrc file.

This should get your Jack installation working.

Also, have you installed the OS X MIDI driver for your MIDI interface/ 
USB port?

Ebrahim