AEOLUS 0.9.0 BUILD INSTRUCTIONS (OSX)
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As of version 0.8.2 Aeolus now works on OS X. At the time of this writing
(March 2008) you need a newer JACK[1] than that provided by Jack OSX[2]
version 0.76. This means you won't be able to use JackPilot to manage
connections, but you can use QjackCtl[3] instead.
Aeolus registers itself as a CoreMIDI virtual destination. This means programs
like MidiKeys[4] will allow you to select Aeolus as a destination. A USB MIDI
driver will probably not automatically select Aeolus as a destination and
provide you no means for doing so yourself. For this you need to either use
MidiKeys with MIDI thru, or a patch bay such as MIDI Patchbay[5]. In my
experience MidiKeys is easier and more reliable, at least in the face of my
apparently-buggy USB MIDI driver.
1. http://jackaudio.org/
2. http://jackosx.com/
3. http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/
4. http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys.html
5. http://pete.yandell.com/software/
Building Aeolus
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Assuming you have all the dependencies worked out (see below), you just need to
make and make install using the proper makefile.
ln -s Makefile-osx makefile
make
sudo make install
Building clthreads and clxclient works the same way.
Building JACK
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Version 0.109.2 as of this writing.
./configure --with-default-tmpdir=/tmp
make
sudo make install
Building QjackCtl
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First, install Qt/Mac[6] (version 4.3.4 at the time of this writing). Then, in
the qjackctl-0.3.2 subdirectory,
./configure
make
This will produce an error like the following:
make[1]: qjackctl.mak: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `qjackctl.mak'. Stop.
make: *** [qjackctl] Error 2
This is because Qt/Mac's qmake generates an Xcode project, not a makefile. Now
open that project in Xcode:
open qjackctl.mak.xcodeproj
Build it and stash the resulting qjackctl.app somewhere convenient.
6. http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/mac
Author
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Please contact me if these instructions are incomplete or erroneous.
Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>