[sldev] Bugs in the Mac OS X Source tree

[Trevor Powell]

I have a working OS X build of Nicholaz's 18g build..  I've worked through
each of the issues below..

The problem with cursors_mac is just that the directory itself is missing;
 all the files that should be in it are dumped into the root of the mac
resources directory, instead of into a 'cursors_mac' directory inside that
directory.  That one was easy to fix, locally.

The giant executables seem to be caused by linking in the Mozilla library.
 Or at least, when I removed it from the linking process, it yielded no
linking errors and the final executable came down from >1gig to the 70ish
megs that you'd expect.


I haven't yet looked at the post-voice source releases on the Mac (except
to plunder some the pre-built png libraries that they forgot to include in
the pre-voice source releases)..  I'd release my builds, except that they
suffer from a weird behaviour;  textures seem to load far, far slower than
they do in the official Linden version.  Slow enough that it's not at all
uncommon for me to hang around in a single area and still have blank grey
textures on many things twenty minutes later.  It's as though it wasn't
retrying to grab the textures if a packet got lost, or something.  Haven't
had a chance to delve more deeply into it yet, though.  And in all
honesty, the solution may come by moving up to a post-voice source
release;  LL seem to have fixed a bunch of problems in the Mac source
releases post-voice.


Trevor

> Hey Nicholaz,
>
> yes, that's exactly what I did. llthread.cpp, changed to
> APR_THREAD_MUTEX_NESTED and all is golden.
>
> bye, Barney
>
> On 9/16/07, Nicholaz Beresford <nicholaz at blueflash.cc> wrote:
>>
>> I just looked a bit deeper.  I think the issue is to
>> replace all APR_THREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT to
>> APR_THREAD_MUTEX_NESTED.
>>
>> Or of course undo my patch with the EasyCacheWriter.
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> Second Life from the inside out:
>> http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> Barney Boomslang wrote:
>> > Hey Mac-heads,
>> >
>> > please check the following jira bugs and vote if you think we
>> > Mac-heads should be able to do a full working build of the client, too
>> > ;)
>> >
>> > This one is critical: the cursors_mac directory is missing and
>> > viewer_manifest.py willingly ignores that, so we are missing several
>> > mouse cursors in the build (I wrote about that some time ago):
>> >
>> > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2482
>> >
>> > The next one is about the giant executables the project file produces
>> > with Deployment or Universal builds:
>> >
>> > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2483
>> >
>> > This one is the missing SecondLife icon for the application. This
>> > might be intentional of LL, but then there should be a word on it.
>> >
>> > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2484
>> >
>> > Maybe an idea: put a readme in the source tree that actually states
>> > _why_ stuff is missing? And put comments into viewer_manifest.py about
>> > why parts of it are commented out, like the kakadu library - that one
>> > is a no-brainer, since we don't have redistribution rights for that.
>> > Oh, but you still deliver it (the library) with your libraries
>> > download ...
>> >
>> > bye, Barney
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