[kepler-dev] Matlab configuration on MacOSX

[Daniel Crawl]

Hi Christopher,

Attached are a set of patches for building the Matlab actor
on a Mac. Let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,

  --dan

Christopher Brooks wrote:
> Hi Ilkay,
>
> You might be able to change variables in ptII/mk/ptII.mk for 
> MacOSX.  You could also update configure, but that takes a little
> doing.  If you tell me what variables you change, we can
> iterate offline on getting configure.in updated.
>
> I don't have a Mac on which to test the Matlab code.
>
> In general, JNI is rather difficult to get working, so it could
> be a big time sink.  How I would work on this is by looking at
> the tests in $PTII/jni/test/.  If you can get 
>     cd $PTII/jni/test;
>     make
> to work, then JNI will be working and you can focus on the Matlab
> portion.
>
> I'm dumbfounded that someone somewhere decided that Java should have a
> different layout on the Mac than under Linux, Solaris and Windows.
> The fact that Java files are in different locations on just MacOS
> makes cross platform configuration difficult.  Maybe this critical
> shortcoming in the port to MacOS has been solved, but last I looked it
> was a mess.
>
> _Christopher
>
>     
>     
>     Hi,
>     
>     I've just tried configuring Ptolemy in order to use the Matlab actor  
>     in Ptolemy II  on a MacOSX version 10.4.11. It doesn't configure  
>     because of the different Java directory configuration on Mac Java.
>     
>     I was wondering if anyone tried rewriting the Matlab configuration  
>     script on MacOSX before to map the directories in the script to the  
>     MacOSX java directories. If not, do you think it's worth trying?
>     
>     Thanks!
>     -ilkay
>     
>     -- 
>     Ilkay ALTINTAS
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