[sane-devel] sane/xsane on Mac OS X?

[Jim George]

Can I just ask the originator what development tools is he/she using?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Meier-Geinitz" <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] sane/xsane on Mac OS X?


> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:47:27PM +0200, Olivier Chararas wrote:
> > I also tried a few days ago to buil SANE 107 on OSX 1.4 and
> > except for canon (which I commented out temporarily) it seems to build
> > and install.
> >
> > BUT :
> > if I then try "scanimage --list-devices" it seems to run OK but no
> > device is identified (i didn't dreamed of my Apple OneScanner first
> > time...), not even the pnm pseudo-device.
>
> pnm is diabled by default. If you want it for testing, run
>
> ./configure --enable-pnm-backend
>
> See man sane-pnm, PROBLEMS, ./configure --help for details.
>
> > there seems to be no pnm library similar to, say, Apple OneScan.
> >
> > furthermore, although i tried to understand the architecture and build
> > process, i'm clueless about the make output :
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > installing libsane-apple.la in /usr/local/lib/sane...
> > /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libsane-apple.lai
> > /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-apple.la
> > /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libsane-apple.a
> > /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-apple.a
> > ranlib /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-apple.a
> > chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-apple.a
>
> Looks like only the static libraries have been installed. Maybe
> libtool doesn't support shared libs on OS X? You should get a fairly
> large scanimage binary (> 2 MB) that includes all the libs.
>
> > Am i missing some step ? Any hint please ?
>
> SCSI (and USB) support for OS X is not yet implemented. Added to TODO
> list. But I guess this must be done by somebody who actually uses OS X.
>
> > About managing SCSI, you can find sample code at
> >
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Archive/Devices_and_Hardwa
re/SCSI/SCSI_Inquiry.htm
> > (old manager)
> > or
> >
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Devices_and_Hardware/SCSI.
htm
> > (manager 4.3)
> >
> > They are running in Classic but none of them can see my OneScan.
>
> Patches for sanei_scsi.c and configure.in (to detect the OS X headers)
> are welcome.
>
> Bye,
>   Henning
>
>
>