Problem trying to compile Audacity in Mac. Please help!

I have been trying to compile Audacity in Mac, but I got a problem with WxMac.

I downloaded the source code of Audacity 1.2.6 from SourceForge, and have been following the compile instruction compile.txt, which is located in the “mac” directory from Audacity 1.2.6.

Following the compile.txt,

STEP 1: Download wxWidgets

I got myself wxMac-2.4.2.tar.gz, and uncompress it (the instruction uses the terminal, but simply double clicking on the tar.gz should give the same result)

STEP 2: Download Audacity

Since I already got myself Audacity 1.2.6, I skipped this step.

STEP 3: Apply patch

I followed all the instructions, and got these:

MyMac:wxMac-2.4.2 myName$ patch -p 1 < ~/desktop/audacity-src-1.2.6/mac/wxMac-2.4.2.patch

patching file include/wx/font.h
patching file src/common/intl.cpp

patching file src/mac/app.cpp
patching file src/mac/dc.cpp

patching file src/mac/dcclient.cpp
patching file src/mac/font.cpp

I see nothing wrong here.

STEP 4: Optional 10.2 compatibility The instructions are:

If you use tcsh:

setenv MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 10.2 setenv NEXT_ROOT /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk setenv C_INCLUDE_PATH /usr/local/include:/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk/usr/include setenv LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib:/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/3.3 setenv LD_PREBIND 1 setenv CPPFLAGS -DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=1020

For bash, “setenv foo bar” becomes “export foo=bar” (notice the ‘=’ sign).

So logically, “setenv MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 10.2” should become “export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.2”

So I type in as follow:

MyMac:wxMac-2.4.2 myName$ bash

bash-3.2$ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.2

bash-3.2$ export NEXT_ROOT=/Development/SDKs/MAcOSX10.2.8.sdk

bash-3.2$ export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include:/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk/usr/include

bash-3.2$ export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/3.3

bash-3.2$ export LD_PREBIND=1

bash-3.2$ export CPPFLAGS=-DMAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED=1020

bash-3.2$ exit
exit
MyMac:wxMac-2.4.2 myName$

STEP 5: Compile and install wxMac

mkdir macbuild cd macbuild …/configure --disable-shared make sudo make install

[ Type your Mac OS X password ]

Here’s what I got:

MyMac:wxMac-2.4.2 myName$ mkdir macbuild

MyMac:wxMac-2.4.2 myName$ cd macbuild

MyMac:macbuild myName$ …/configure --disable-shared

creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type… i386-apple-darwin9.7.0

checking target system type… i386-apple-darwin9.7.0

checking build system type… i386-apple-darwin9.7.0

configure: error: unknown system type i386-apple-darwin9.7.0.

MyMac:macbuild myName$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Frankly, I think something is very fishy since the step 4. And the result from step 5 renders me unable to go on. This is my first time to compile a source code from other sources, so I do not quite understand how the whole thing works fully yet. If you know how to do this properly, please guide me. Thank you.

I think there’s something fishy in step 3.
What patch are you trying to apply?
A patch can only be applied to Audacity source code, not to the compiled program.

Wow, what OS ver are you playing in? Panther,Tiger or what? You need to brush up on declaring env vars for whatever version you’re in. It looks like configure is ignoring or not finding the ones you exported. Try on step at a time, export one then type env' for list of current vars. If they are on the list, they are current for that shell only, once you exit bash, they're undeclared where ever you're exiting to. What is your default shell? Also, note the difference between: export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.2 check with env’ and:
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=“10.2” check again

Separate your command invocations: mkdir macbuild cd macbuild …/configure --disable-shared make sudo make install
mkdir macbuild cd macbuild …/configure --disable-shared && make && sudo make install

Better yet, one at a time:
./configure --disable-shared (wait for completion before attempting make)
make ( you had nothing to make because configure aborted)

Configure exited because it knew nothing of your env vars.

visit: http://hayne.net/MacDev/Notes/unixFAQ.html

Have fun,JK