linux status of OSC and Max/MSP support

Is anyone working on getting OSC and/or Max working on Linux? I played with it months ago, but am now only getting back to things. EBo --

Well, Max doesn't run on Linux. You would be best off going with its open-source cousin Pd - http://puredata.info/ OSC should work fine over UDP, but of course still not over USB.

Thanks liamMT, Are there other implementations of OSC that might work for Linux? EBo --

Well, it has been almost a year and I'm getting back to some fun projects. OSC over Linux still appears not to work, and I'm digging back into things. Can anyone point me to any work they know that has been done for OSC ove USB on Linux, and Max/MSP? Thanks, EBo --

Welcome back! Max/MSP does not run on Linux, so that is a nonstarter. As always, OSC should work fine over Ethernet, but support is spottier over USB. I have a branched version of mchelper with Linux-friendly USB serial code, minus an enumerator. There is code for enumeration via libusb that I think should be reasonably easy to add in. I don't have easy access to a Linux box at the moment, so I can't check.

Thanks Liam! Is the "branched version" in svn makingthings/mchelper/branches/v25? Otherwise, can you email me a tar/zip-ball of it? I want to set up the MC to automate an experiment with a restoration ecologist colleague of mine, and getting some hacked version of OSC over USB would make things easy to control and autolog the experiments. Thanks again!!!

Yep - v25 is the one. Note that you'll need Qt 4.4.0 for some of the stuff in there. Another disclaimer - it may be in a bit of a strange state at the moment as I haven't been working on it for a bit, but it should be a place to start.

Ok... I'll look into it. Qt 4.4.0 is marked as unstable on my distribution so I'll either hack around it or hack it back into 2.4.linux Thanks!

Liam, what version of the cross compiler are you using? I'm having some *strange* results. Any firmware examples I build using wither GNUArm-3.4.3(with thumb support) or crossdev-4.2.4(without thumb support) appear to work but will not talk to OSC via eth0. I eventually went back to firmware-110.03/heavy and was able to talk to it over the ethernet (plugged in to a hub). Recompilation causes OSC not to work at all. Any other suggestions?