How to build Piano Booster on OSX 10.4?

[GroverDill]

I have an older Mac Mini that I am hoping to repurpose as a dedicated Piano Booster machine. It is a G4 with 512 MB of RAM running OS X 10.4. Since the binary executable on the site seems to work with 10.6 only, it looks like I will have to go the build-from-source route, but I am not really sure how to proceed with this on an old version of OS X.

I saw the previous thread on this topic on these forums, but it didn't seem conclusive as far as whether or not this is possible, and if it is, how to best proceed.

I should mention that I'm somewhat technical and don't have a problem building software from source on current systems, but I'm not sure how building on an outdated system changes things.

Any advice is appreciated.

[Louis B.]

Sorry for the slow reply to your post.

Please note: I don't have any access to a mac of any kind, but I can offer you some advice on how to compile.

First you need ensure that mac has 3d hardware graphical acceleration as PB depends on this using OpenGl.

Second you need to find a version of QT that compiles on your system. go to http://qt.nokia.com/ and find if there is a version that works on your system. I suggest that first compile the example openGL/"Hello GL". If you can get that working on your system them PB should compile as well.

PB works with quite old versions of the QT library if the new versions of QT don't run on your system.

Please let us know how you get on.

Thanks

Louis