[sldev] [VIEWER} Mac madness

[Barney Boomslang]

HI,

it's the pesky OpenJPEG library. It can't decode stuff it encoded
itself if it is uncompressed JPEG2000. This is not Mac specific, but
is a problem with all pure opensource builds. I'd love to be able to
build SL against the libkdu stuff (which is what the official client
uses - a commercial JPEG 2000 library), but so far no luck with that.
If anybody has a hint on how to do that, I would be quite happy,
because it's the biggest problem with the Mac build of the client so
far. There is a jira on that allready:

https://jira.secondlife.com:443/browse/VWR-1815

Another problem I stumbled over is that several mouse cursors are
missing - some show up, some don't. Haven't looked into that for now,
due to the OpenJPEG problems being essentially a show-stopper for what
I want to do (build mac clients based on nicholaz' patches).

The third thing I noticed is that even with 1.18.3 the XCode project
files build universal and deployment with all symbols linked and so
produce monstrous executables - it's one click in the project file to
only link essential symbols and get to the normal executable sizes,
though.

bye, Barney

On 9/8/07, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:
> I wonder how many people are using Macs to write patches? I've noticed
> at least two issues that appear to be Mac-specific. The first is a minor
> annoyance and I'm not proficient enough in using the xCode IDE to figure
> out how to fix it. The "Development" target, designed to facilitate
> debugging, causes runtime errors at the lanuch of the client, so I have
> to use the "Deployment" target instead.
>
> The second one is a killer, at least with the OpenSource version of
> 1.18.3.2. Using a pristine build with no modifications, I get severe
> texture issues in at least one sculptie: a modable version of Qarl's ant
> sculpty that was used to test the libsl sculptie-importing script. The
> problem does NOT appear in the pre-built RC Mac client.
>
> The problems appear in both the sulptie-maps (they look like random
> garbage in some of the prims) and the textures that go on various prims
> (instead of ant-grey, they're bright, mono-colors). Again, this happens
> in the home-brew, but pristine build, but not the pre-built version.
>
> I've done the usual stuff like clear cache, check for RAM and disk
> hardware/format/etc errors. I've also rebuilt the entire client from
> scratch. Same problem.
>
> Mac G5 dual 2.0 system with 2.5 GB of RAM, running xCode IDE 2.4.1, no
> special settings, deployment build.
>
> I'll submit a jira with the screenshots of both the pre-built and
> home-built versions. If any Mac developer wants a copy of the ant, I can
> send it to them for testing. A windows PC person noticed SLIGHT errors
> with the ant on their home-brew client vs the pre-built, bit nothing
> like what I get on the Mac.
>
> Just a heads up.
>
> Lawson
>
> AKA Saijanai Kuhn
>
>
>
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