I was trying to install Ward Cunningham and Jim Wilson's Morse code trainer on OS X and it looks like their .dmg file doesn't work on the new Intel machines. Here's what I did to get it to build.
Grab a copy of the source from the git repository:
amorton@minivac:~% git clone git://github.com/WardCunningham/morse.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/amorton/morse/morse/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 52, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37/37), done.
remote: Total 52 (delta 12), reused 52 (delta 12)
Receiving objects: 100% (52/52), 1.85 MiB | 253 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), done.Use MacPorts to install the required libraries libsdl and fntk:
amorton@minivac:~% sudo port install fltk libsdl
Password:
---> Fetching fltk
---> Attempting to fetch fltk-1.1.7-source.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/fltk/1.1.7/
---> Verifying checksum(s) for fltk
---> Extracting fltk
---> Applying patches to fltk
---> Configuring fltk
---> Building fltk with target all
---> Staging fltk into destroot
---> Installing fltk 1.1.7_2
---> Activating fltk 1.1.7_2
---> Cleaning fltk
Skipping org.macports.activate (libsdl ) since this port is already active
---> Cleaning libsdlLooks like I already had libsdl installed.
The existing makefile doesn't work but Justin Burket did the hard work to get this going in 10.3. His patch seemed to be reversed so I manually applied it and updated it. My big contribution was adding the Info.plist and building a proper .app bundle so the window gets the focus when you launch it.
Download the attached patch and apply it:
amorton@minivac:~% cd morse/src/
amorton@minivac:~/morse/src% wget http://drewish.com/files/morse_osx.patch
--2008-07-03 01:59:42-- http://drewish.com/files/morse_osx.patch
Resolving drewish.com... 216.210.203.35
Connecting to drewish.com|216.210.203.35|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3416 (3.3K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `morse_osx.patch'
100%[======================================>] 3,416 --.-K/s in 0.1s
2008-07-03 01:59:42 (27.1 KB/s) - `morse_osx.patch' saved [3416/3416]
amorton@minivac:~/morse/src% patch -p2 -i morse_osx.patch
patching file Info.plist
patching file MakefileNow compile the app and move the result into the /Applications directory:
amorton@minivac:~/morse/src% make
g++ -c -Os `fltk-config --cxxflags` Bargraph.cxx
g++ -c -Os `fltk-config --cxxflags` Codebox.cxx
g++ -c -Os `sdl-config --cflags` Cw.cxx
g++ -c -Os `fltk-config --cxxflags` Knob.cxx
fluid -c m.fl
g++ -c -Os `fltk-config --cxxflags` m.cxx
mkdir -p Morse.app/Contents/MacOS
g++ -o Morse m.o Bargraph.o Codebox.o Cw.o Knob.o \
`sdl-config --static-libs` \
`fltk-config --ldstaticflags` -ldl \
-framework Carbon
mv Morse Morse.app/Contents/MacOS/
fltk-config --post Morse.app/Contents/MacOS/Morse
/Developer/Tools/Rez -t APPL -o Morse.app/Contents/MacOS/Morse /opt/local/include/FL/mac.r
cp Info.plist Morse.app/Contents/
rm *.o m.cxx m.h
amorton@minivac:~/morse/src% mv Morse.app /Applications/
Compiling on Leopard
When I followed the instructions above, I got this error when I attempted to compile:
g++ -c -Os `fltk-config --cxxflags` m.cxx
m.cxx: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
m.cxx:585: error: ‘w’ was not declared in this scope
make: *** [m.o] Error 1
The solution was to open the file m.cxx, go to line 585 and change this line:
w->show(argc, argv);
To this:
Morse->show(argc, argv);
That did the trick!
Hope this helps.
- Bash
C2 Morse code trainer on OSX - built for OSX.5 on intel and PPC
dear amorton,
would you please be so kind and make
the binary available for download?
thank you in advance
Stephan, HB9ocq
Morse.app builds cleanly and easily on OS X 10.5.5!
thanks!