Building the C2 Morse code trainer on OSX 03 July 2008
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 libsdl
Looks 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 Makefile
Now compile the app:
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
Then you should be able to move the result into the /Applications directory:
amorton@minivac:~/morse/src% mv Morse.app /Applications/