Installing Jackbeat on Mac OS X

The easiest way to get Jackbeat to run on an Intel Mac is to download the DMG binary image. However, there are some cases when you may want to compile Jackbeat by yourself, for example to get the most recent version, run Jackbeat on a PowerPC, etc... For this purpose, the following instructions have been tested on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and 10.5.6 Leopard.

First of all, install Apple XCode and GTK+ OS X.

Optionally, install Jack OS X.

Now, open a Terminal.app and grab the bleeding edge version of Jackbeat, from SVN:

svn co http://svn.samalyse.com/jackbeat/trunk jackbeat 
cd jackbeat

Run the bootstrap-libs.sh script to download and build Jackbeat's dependencies into ./local-libs (and go make yourself a cup of tea..):

./bootstrap-libs.sh

Prepare the autoconf/automake build environment:

./autogen.sh -I ./local-libs/build/share/aclocal

Configure and build Jackbeat:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$(pwd)/local-libs/build/lib/pkgconfig
export PATH=$(pwd)/local-libs/build/bin:$PATH
./configure --enable-devmode
make 

That's it ! Now run Jackbeat from the current directory with:

src/jackbeat

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Advanced users may also want to try and build an application bundle.