[flext] Max 6.1, Mac OS 10.9 and flext externals

Mon Oct 13 10:27:10 UTC 2014

A hack if you don't need MSP: you can comment out line 338 in flbuf.cpp

//    object_method((t_object *)p,(t_symbol *)sym_dirty);

On 29 September 2014 10:24, Stefano Papetti <stefano.papetti at zhdk.ch> wrote:

>  Thank you Thomas.
>
> Best,
> Stefano
>
>
> On 29/09/14 02:05, Thomas Grill wrote:
>
> Hi Stefano,
> I would think that needs some further introspection. I am not totally
> sure, but it seems that 64-bit externals have to use the 64-bit DSP API
> which flext currently doesn't support. Actually it will be quite hard to
> support it.
> Let's see.... i can look into it somewhen in late October, but i am very
> grateful for others contributing patches.
> all the best, Thomas
>
>  --
> Thomas Grill
> http://grrrr.org
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>
>
>  Am 28.09.2014 um 20:28 schrieb Stefano Papetti <stefano.papetti at zhdk.ch>:
>
>  Dear all,
>
> can somebody confirm that currently the only way to use flext-based
> externals in Max 6.1 on Mac OS 10.9 is to set Max to run in 32-bit mode?
> Conversely my externals report the following error:
>
> external~: unable to load object bundle executable
>  2014-09-28 20:06:14.081 Max[20029:707] Error loading /Applications/Max
> 6.1/Cycling '74/external~.mxo/Contents/MacOS/external~:
> dlopen(/Applications/Max 6.1/Cycling
> '74/external~.mxo/Contents/MacOS/external~, 262): no suitable image found.
> Did find:
>      /Applications/Max 6.1/Cycling
> '74/external~.mxo/Contents/MacOS/external~: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>
> As far as I understand there's no other way, since flext doesn't support
> 64-bit Max API (i.e. compilation with ARCH=i386 x86_64 doesn't work).
> I don't need any 64-bit features btw, it's just a pity that one has to
> limit Max to 32-bit in order to run flext-based externals.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
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