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

Thanks Victor and Scott. Once I get further along (i.e., actually making
sounds with it...) I can submit a pull request with further readme text if
that's helpful.

iain

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM vlz <[email protected]> wrote:

> We're so used to the bison problem that we forgot all about it. It is in
> the BUILD.md but not in the Daisy instructions.
>
> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
>
> On 19 Nov 2024, at 06:48, Scott Sitar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> Sweet!  I'm glad that worked.  Yeah, I've been getting more and more
> frustrated with the way MacOS bundles up its development tools lately.
> It's nice that the OS is mostly still BSD- and POSIX-y, but they've made
> some pretty developer-unfriendly choices recently.  That being said, I'm an
> old assembly language curmudgeon, so maybe I should get with the times,
> haha.
>
> Scott
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>