Hello,
This is my first post and it is kind of of a request.
I use a powermac g5, yes I know it’s out of date but it just works so well.
Is there anybody who could please compile the latest version of rawtherapee for me as I don’t have a Internet connection to compile it myself.
It would be for ppc 64bit If at all possible.
Thank you for any help possible
Mike
I did the exact thing you request, and it should be easy to google. Last updated quite a while ago, though. It has been on my TODO list to update the builds, but … well … time flies. Is there something in the more recent versions that you require?
My builds available at:
Which OS X are you running?
Compilation instructions: MacOS - RawPedia
Your internet connection appears to be working just fine.
I am using Os x 10.4 and 10.5
Yes I do have a network connection on my mobilephone
Thank you for the link.
I have used the software you compiled but need the wavelet support in the newer builds.
Kind regards
Michael barker
I’ll see if I can update the builds. I’ve been meaning to do that anyway.
OS X 10.4 is a no go. 64-bit build for that platform cannot happen at all, ever, because there are no 64-bit GUI libs on 10.4, and I deemed even a 32-bit build too much trouble as many of the supporting libraries won’t work there.
For a build you can always download the required, larger, packages to a USB stick somewhere where the internet is less costly. However, I wouldn’t recommend building yourself unless you’re a software developer, understand possible endian issues, and are ready to invest quite a bit of time. Supporting archaic platforms in a 100% intel desktop world is a PITA.
Fwiw, I build from scratch and not macports. I find macports rather ill suited for building distributable bundles. It takes similar amount of the time patching the Portfiles as it takes to make your own build scripts.
If anyone can pitch in with a known-to-be-good git revision to base a build on, I’m all ears. Otherwise I’ll just use the ones from the download page. I haven’t followed rawtherapee development for a while.
I have just today finished updating the OS X compilation instructions I linked you to earlier, using feedback and support from several OS X users. I have their confirmation that the instructions are complete and correct. There is no “patching the portfiles” issue I’m aware of. The only patching involves libiconv which takes one minute.
Having said that, RawTherapee requires a minimum of GCC-4.9, and I highly doubt that OS X 10.5’s LLVM compiler supports the required features.
As for the RT compilation instructions. I’d be surprised if they work on a powerpc mac. Clang, afaik, has not really been ported to OS X/ppc, although there is one brave individual struggling to do that.
Patching of Portfiles comes from the fact that they are created for a ports system and not for a single app built to run on top of the OS and not on the ports system. Macports made a decision a long ago to just bootstrap their system with the system tools and then duplicate each and every system provided component (that they can) in their ports tree. It’s not ideal for an app. Macports has also very limited support for powerpc and that also requires patching on almost every “tree” update. Of course, this is, to a degree, a matter of taste, but I found that macports default build options (as well as the options that they give you via flags) and dependencies just don’t suit my idea of a good ported app bundle.
I uploaded new builds to sourceforge. They’re the latest revision I could make to work. After that, some “modernization” changes killed it (file browser sticks at 0% and some thread(s) run at 100% cpu). I’ll investigate later if there’s something to be done about that.
The builds are experimental, so backup your configs before testing in case you need to revert back to 4.2.90.
Holin,
Thank you so much for the work you have done.
Kind regards
Michael