Re: [Csnd-dev] Error trying to build Csound7 for Daisy

Thanks Scott, that did it! I've got libcsound.a building now. Will have to
pick up the next steps in a day or two.

Much appreciated!
iain

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM Scott Sitar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had that issue as well, since I kind of hand-crafted my dev
> environment.  It turns out there's a cmake variable you can set to point it
> at whatever bison path you like, so in your cmake invocation, you can do:
>
> cmake <stuff> <stuff> -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=/full/path/to/the/bison/you/want
> <stuff> <stuff>
>
> That will set all the variables in the generated makefile properly, so
> just running make afterwards should work.
>
> Scott
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 7:17 PM Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Scott. Yes, I am running ancient Bison. I've installed a new one
>> use brew (I'm on MacOS), but it tells me the following:
>>
>>
>>   bison is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /opt/homebrew,
>>   because macOS already provides this software and installing another
>> version in
>>   parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.
>>
>>   If you need to have bison first in your PATH, run:
>>     echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/bison/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
>>
>>   For compilers to find bison you may need to set:
>>     export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/bison/lib"
>>
>> I don't really know cmake, wondering if anyone can tell me the
>> incantations to get cmake's generated make to use my newer Bison?
>>
>> thanks!
>> iain
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM Scott Sitar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> What version of bison are you running?  (bison --version)
>>>
>>> On MacOS, the one that ships with XCode by default is quite old, and it
>>> gave me errors when I tried to use it as well.  I manually installed the
>>> latest (at the time) version, 3.8.2, and that worked much better.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:45 PM Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi devs, apologies if this is my unfamiliarity with CMake at fault. I'm
>>>> trying to build the libcsound for Daisy and running into errors.
>>>>
>>>> What I have done:
>>>> - clone the develop branch of csound
>>>> - followed instructions in the Daisy examples README
>>>>
>>>> the cmake command runs fine. Then when I run "make", I get the errors
>>>> pasted below. This looks like a code error, is there perhaps a tag or
>>>> branch I need to checkout? (or something else I am doing wrong?)
>>>>
>>>> thanks!
>>>> iain
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> iainduncan@macmini build % make
>>>> /opt/homebrew/bin/cmake -S/Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound
>>>> -B/Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/build --check-build-system
>>>> CMakeFiles/Makefile.cmake 0
>>>> /opt/homebrew/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_start
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/build/CMakeFiles
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/build//CMakeFiles/progress.marks
>>>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  -f
>>>> CMakeFiles/Makefile2 all
>>>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  -f
>>>> CMakeFiles/csound.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/csound.dir/depend
>>>> [  0%] Generating csound_prslex.c
>>>> /usr/bin/flex -B -t -d
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/Engine/csound_prs.lex >
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/build/csound_prslex.c
>>>> [  0%] Generating csound_orclex.c
>>>> /usr/bin/flex -B -t
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/Engine/csound_orc.lex >
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/build/csound_orclex.c
>>>> [  0%] Generating csound_orcparse.c, csound_orcparse.h
>>>> /usr/bin/bison -pcsound_orc -d --report=itemset -o
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/build/csound_orcparse.c
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/Engine/csound_orc.y
>>>> /Users/iainduncan/Documents/csound/Engine/csound_orc.y:24.9-16: syntax
>>>> error, unexpected identifier, expecting string
>>>> make[2]: *** [csound_orcparse.c] Error 1
>>>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/csound.dir/all] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>
>>>