SongCue Notes for Mac OS X (tm)

• dlcompat (libdl) (1)
• X11
• lesstif
• tcl/tk (1)
• PostGreSQL or MySQL (2)
• esd (from Fink, with an additional patch)
• mpg123 (with patch)
• ogg123 (with patch)

(1) Indicates requirement for pgaccess (whcih is only required for lack of a better way to modify the database

(2) MySQL transition in part because it ships with mac OS X and because of delays in a Fink release of postgres on X 10.1 and in part because postgres is just a pain to build and use on X.

This list may not be complete.

POSTGRES-SPECIFIC ISSUES:

Note that postgres and tcl and tk require slight modifications to make them build correctly to support .so-style shared libraries in order for the pgaccess program to work. Of course, you can ignore that if you can find a better way to modify the database....

Also note that you MUST remove the old dylib files for TCL before you start working on building TCL/TK or else things will try to link against them and you'll go nuts for hours trying to figure out what is broken. (This is a well-known deficiency in the library path search order in Mac OS X's linker, ld.)

You will know that everything works (except esd and the mpg/ogg players) if you are able to run pgaccess. This part of the procedure is a non-trivial task, so if you aren't a serious UNIX/Linux geek, you should probably use mysql.

Once we have our own utility, the tcl/tk requirements will fall out, and stock postgresql sources (or at least the needed parts of it) will then build straight out of the box with './configure ; make'.