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Re: Porting ViaVoice from Linux to OS X;
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Re: Porting ViaVoice from Linux to OS X;


  • Subject: Re: Porting ViaVoice from Linux to OS X;
  • From: Steve <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:14:15 -0800

Matt,

While the statement from Clark Cox is certainly correct, a person with my background of almost thirty years experience writing compilers and hand optimized assembly code would call it a bigger challenge. You are asking for Wine for Mac OSX, which, AFAIK does not exist. I presume that libibmeci.so is from a PowerPC based Linux system and not an Intel based system? If it is the latter, then you are also asking for hardware emulation and I am rapidly losing interest. :-)

Steve

Clark Cox wrote:

If all you have is a linux library (i.e. no source code), then you're
out of luck. "Porting" something without the source code is an
exercise in futility.


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:55:19 -0700, Madentec Matt Budd
<email@hidden> wrote:


Hello all,

I am trying to port a text-to-speech engine (ViaVoice by IBM) from
Linux to Mac OS X. I am given an libibmeci.so file, and try to
compile/make a small sample program (that I got to correctly link and
work on the Linux system) and get the following error:

       ld: /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/libibmeci.so bad magic number (not a Mach-O
file)

I am assuming that this is because the shared-object library (the .so
file) is in ELF format where as OS X expects shared object libraries to
be in Mach-O format (dylib?).

I am wondering what I can do. I am only given the .so file in Linux
format, and don't have the source to recompile it on OS X as a dylib.
Is there anything I can do to convert this .so to a .dylib? Or is this
something that IBM would have to recompile/support specifically for OS
X. Also, I am trying to static linking at compile time, but possibly
could look at performing dynamic loading at runtime if that would get
this to work.

 - Matt

P.S. - I've CCd the speech-dev list, in case anyone out there has had
success/failure porting ViaVoice 6.7 onto OS X.

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