XmiX announce

gabbro

hi,

after two years of lurkin'n'coding I wrote XmiX, a full OSC oriented 8 tracks environment with client/server architecture over TCP/IP:

http://mag-one.noblogs.org/xmix

hope you like it,

mag-one

gabbro

hi,

a new revision... check it out if you pleased:

http://puredata.info/Members/gabbro/XmiX-rev176.tar.bz2/at_download/file

changelog: put paths declaration out of the startup shell script and added them in the patches with [declare]. Now all should be started even without the script (via pd->open).

mag-one

Jwif

Hey,

looks good but I haven't able to run it yet. When running $ ./XmiX I get:

retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
connecting stream socket: Invalid argument (22)
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
connecting stream socket: Invalid argument (22)

Is this something to do with OSC? Do Martin Peach's OSC object come with XmiX?

For example when I run x_OSC_server.pd it can't create 'mrpeach/unpackOSC'

Should I download the separate externals as well?

Thanks,
Joe

gabbro

hi,

from the README:

"XmiX is written in Pure Data ‘vanilla’ 0.42.6 with the Martin Peach’s OSC objects compiled as an external. You can obviously run it also on Pd-extended."

so.. if you are using "Pd 'vanilla'" you got to compile the mrpeach's OSC objects separately,
if you're using "pd-extended" the OSC objects should be in "..../extra/mrpeach/..." as in the last pd-extended version, so in pd-extended it should work without change anything (and it should work also opening the "x_OSC_server.pd" patch).

NOTE: XmiX uses the TCP ports 3000 and 3001... so this ports should be free on your system (no other deamons should bind it).

however I never got the error you posted... pleasae let me know if it works...

thanks
mag-one

Jwif

Hi,

I did read the README, but felt it could possibly be a bit clearer.

I'm using Pd Vanilla on OS X.

Is there a way of compiling mrpeach's OSC without downloading extended?

I've downloaded the source from here:
http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/externals/mrpeach/

I tried running the Makefile but I get the following error:

joe:mrpeach $ make
make -C /Users/joe/Downloads/mrpeach mrpeach
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `mrpeach'. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

I'm not really sure where I'm going wrong.

Thanks

gabbro

hi,

compiling mrpeach's OSC objects in 'vanilla' step-to-step guide:

1 - go to Martin Peach's page: http://puredata.info/Members/martinrp

2 - download: packOSC.c, unpackOSC.c, routeOSC.c

3 - compile:
------> gcc -I/usr/include -o packOSC.pd_linux packOSC.c
------> gcc -I/usr/include -o unpackOSC.pd_linux unpackOSC.c
------> gcc -I/usr/include -o routeOSC.pd_linux routeOSC.c

4 - copy:
------> mkdir /usr/lib/pd/extra/mrpeach
------> cp *.pd_linux /usr/lib/pd/extra/mrpeach

NOTE:
"/usr/include" = it's the path where the "m_pd.h" file resides. Change it if your header is elsewhere.
"/usr/lib/pd/extra" = it's the directory where pd looks for externals. Change it if you have it elsewhere.

This works on all my linux boxes... I never tried it on OSX but should be nearly the same.

please tell me If it works so I will add this guide to the README.

thanks
mag-one
..
http://mag-one.noblogs.org

Jwif

Hey,

Yeah I think it works a bit differently on OS X.

For me Pd Vanilla does not include 'm_pd.h' in '/usr/include/'. I found it in /src in the application folder.

/Applications/Pd-0.42-5.app/Contents/Resources/src

Additionally I don't think Vanilla makes a default directory for custom externals (I could be wrong). Pd extended makes a directory in '~/Library/Pd' so I also created a folder there.

When I tried to compile the objects I got the following errors:

joe:osc $ gcc -I/Applications/Pd-0.42-5.app/Contents/Resources/src -o packOSC.pd_darwin packOSC.c
Undefined symbols:
"_main", referenced from:
start in crt1.10.6.o
"_post", referenced from:
_packOSC_closebundle in ccQgmwZz.o
_packOSC_settypetags in ccQgmwZz.o
.....
..... etc...

I don't know if this is a problem referencing the header file?

Jwif

Ok, so I managed to compile mrpeach's OSC objects in Xcode (I can upload the project if needed).

Then I copied them into '/XmiX-rev176/x_ABS/mrpeach'

However, I still get the same error:

joe:XmiX-rev176 $ ./XmiX.sh
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
connecting stream socket: Invalid argument (22)
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
retrying connect...
connecting stream socket: Invalid argument (22)

I checked the ports and there doesn't seem to be anything on TCP 3000 or 3001. Do you know a terminal command to check this? I'm just running $ netstat | grep 3000

Thanks for the help,
Joe

gabbro

hi,

unforunately I never tried on an apple machine and I don't have one to test it.

But maybe I figured the problem with OSX is another... maybe...

I suppose the "retrying connect..." error it's not an error gived by the patch but it's the error pure data gives when can't connect the gui process (pd-gui 5400) and the "pd" process.
So my idea is that the two pd processes start too fast in OSX and something strange happen with the two "pd-gui" processes.

If this is true you probably have to launch the client and the server separately:

./XmiX.sh -e localhost

... wait... and when started:

./XmiX.sh -g localhost

... hope it works