Re: [Csnd-dev] Csound 7 errors

Definitely looks like a bug to me. I suspect an issue with how = is
optimized out. If you would file a bug in the issue tracker with this,
we can be sure to get to this before release.

On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:31 PM Dave Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Thanks, but wouldn't that be considered an incompatibility with existing code? I 've been using this for years, incorrect or not.
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> 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
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> error: -+rtmidi='portmidi': unknown module *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
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> 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:
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>> 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
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>> https://csound.com/manual/ftgen.html
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>> 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)