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I have already compiled Audacity HEAD (after 2.0.4 plus my own mods) with success under Windows XP and I thought I'd set up my OSX partition too.
I'm not successful yet..

I've come a good way - but you're probably not interested in knowing what I have made work, and if so please skip to next paragraph.
But for those interested I've overcome:
- A stale OSX 10.5 partition.
- Missing libtool and cmake.
- A macports library that had somehow ended up in a stalemate - a "port update outdated" reported of unsolvable incompatibilities.
- A compile bash script with CR+LF line endings.

But I can't compile portaudio.
It prints an error from line 15795 of the portaudio-19/compile script as it gives up on searching for SDK version - and this I don't understand because I have both /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk and /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk.
Any ideas?

My system:
- OSX: 10.5 Leopard
- XCode 3.1
- Intel Core2 Duo 2.2 GHz
- 2 GB RAM
- 10 GB free space on HDD

// Lasse

Hi Lasse,

Although I compile Audacity on Mac I am not an expert, and I suspect most others here also.

The 10.5 SDK could be the problem. Is this an Apple Mac machine?

Are you following http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Building_On_Mac ?


Gale

Thanks Gale!


That might be the problem as I have not been following that guide... I will give it a go immediately
I believe there are some pages in the non-wiki part of the site that should be updated to point to that particular wiki page, if that is the officially maintained guide.

I got to this page instead:
- http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Mac
and this
- http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Build ... ies_On_Mac
because that's where one is lead to after having downloaded the sources from this page:
- http://audacityteam.org/download/source

I've also had a look at the compile.txt file in the mac/ folder of the sources, but even though it claims to be updated for 2.0.4. I don't suppose it really is.
And - btw - that text file also points you back here:
- http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Mac


And yes, my computer *is* an Apple MacBook late 2007, but if the machine is itself a little confused about its identity, that could be explained by me having run only WinXP on it since 2009


Thanks
Lasse

Hi Lasse,

You're right that Leland's "Building on Mac" is only obliquely linked to - though there is a prominent yellow div on http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Mac that points to Leland's page. The obliqueness is because no-one was sure how well Leland's instructions would work on Tiger, and then I had some problems using Leland's instructions to build with accessibility enabled (I've not tried that again).

Ideally Leland's page should really just replace http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Developing_On_Mac but what about the case of an existing developer who already has Xcode 5 or a more modern OS X SDK?


Gale