Re: [Csnd-dev] Csound 7 errors

That may be a windows thing. It won’t happen on Mac or Linux. Csound 6 libs do not load on Csound 7 because of version checking.
On the Mac, they are kept in a different place as well.

> On 8 Sep 2024, at 20:38, Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ...and that was due to their being older DLLs in plugins64. Which is apparently what happens when Csound 7 is installed over Csound 6.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:35 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, that one was on me, I screwed up the OPCODE7DIR64 setting.
> 
> And now I get "csound command: Segmentation violation" and nothing else. Sigh.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:31 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, but wouldn't that be considered an incompatibility with existing code? I 've been using this for years, incorrect or not.
> 
> Anyway, I fixed it, but was then warned that OPCODE7DIR64 was not set. Shouldn't this be set by the installer. Anyway, I fixed that (but I saw that Csound 7 is installed to C:\Program Files\Csound6_x64\ -- hopefully this will also be fixed in the installer).
> 
> Now, the problem is
> 
> error: -+rtmidi='portmidi': unknown module *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
> 
> I'm using -+rtmidi=portmidi. There is no portmidi.dll in the plugins64 directory.
> 
> So I am still unable to proceed.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:03 PM vlz <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like the old parser let this expression compile when it should not have.
> The ftgen does not have a k-rate output,  see
> 
> https://csound.com/manual/ftgen.html
> 
> and this is what the error message is saying. If you change to gi_xxxx, it will work.
> 
> The new parser is more strict, I guess. Steven can say more.
> 
> 
> > On 8 Sep 2024, at 18:52, Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Obviously the line number is unhelpful (just like in 6), but these are the only ftgen statements in the code.
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Now that I \have csound 7, I just tries running the code that works in csound 6, and got the error message:
> > 
> > error:  Unable to find opcode entry for 'ftgen' with matching argument types:
> > 
> > Found:
> >   k ftgen ccccciiiiiiiiiiic
> > 
> > Candidates:
> >   i ftgen iiiiim
> >   i ftgen.S iiiSim
> >   i ftgen.iS iiiiSm
> >   i ftgen.SS iiiSSm
> >   i ftgen iiiii[]
> >   i ftgen iiiSi[]
> > 
> > Line: 24
> >  from file symmetry.csd (1)
> > Parsing failed due to syntax errors
> > 
> > The ftgen code is:
> > 
> > ; sine table
> > gi_sin = ftgen(0, 0, 2^18, 10, 1)
> > 
> > ; tanh function
> > gi_tanh = ftgen(0, 0, 16385, "tanh", -157, 157, 0)
> > 
> > gk_centaur          = ftgen(80, 0, 13, -2, 1, 21/20, 9/8, 7/6, 5/4, 4/3, 7/5, 3/2, 14/9, 5/3, 7/4, 15/8, 2)
> > gk_meta_slendro     = ftgen(81, 0, 13, -2, 1, 65/64, 9/8, 37/32, 151/128, 5/4, 21/16, 43/32, 3/2, 49/32, 7/4, 57/32, 2)
> > gk_pyth             = ftgen(82, 0, 13, -2, 1, 2187/2048, 9/8, 32/27, 81/64, 4/3, 729/512, 3/2, 6561/4096, 27/16, 16/9, 243/128, 2)
> > gk_bihexany         = ftgen(83, 0, 13, -2, 1, 35/33, 7/6, 5/4, 14/11, 15/11, 3/2, 35/22, 5/3, 7/4, 20/11, 21/11, 2)