We are getting closer and closer to being able to release a “native” OS X version of Ardour that will not require X11. There are still several substantive issues to be resolved, but a few bleeding edge users are currently evaluating the initial “All In One” package that includes JACK as well as Ardour (and will very soon include a set of recommended LADSPA plugins too). This has been made possible by the amazing work of the GTK-Quartz porting team, who managed to get GTK to run on a system that is really fundamentally different in several key ways from X11. Stay tuned for more news.
As a footnote, it was very frustrating to discover that the wonderful experience that OS X generally offers to end-users is not maintained for developers. Certainly not developers wishing to build packages of an application that uses a large set of inter-dependent 3rd party libraries. Although the final result is quite pleasant, the pain involved in doing the packaging was quite astounding. Apple made some odd choices about this all should work, and left developers like me to clean up after them.
Certainly not developers wishing to build packages of an application that uses a large set of inter-dependent 3rd party libraries. Although the final result is quite pleasant, the pain involved in doing the packaging was quite astounding. Apple made some odd choices about this all should work, and left developers like me to clean up after them.
haha let’s talk about it i just spent the last few days packaging a linux game for mac. in the process i learned that dylibs have hardcoded paths inside them and that DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH was disabled by a recent security update that there is no official way to put dylibs inside a bundle and other nice ones like that… The resulting instructions on how to build a package take 15 pages when pasted in AppleWorks. Packaging unix apps for mac is incredibly painful indeed…
anyway great work of you can’t wait to use GTK apps natively on mac
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On OS X, direct support for import of all file types supported by CoreAudio, including MP3 and AAC. Linux users can take comfort: there is ongoing work to offer similar capabilities on their platform.
At present, Ardour runs on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. There are hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions out there to choose from, and Macs are available from Apple. gravel screener