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

Yes please submit so that this is flagged and possibly corrected in the
makefile for Mac users

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 9:44 AM Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>