For what its worth, I've had a similar setup working on Mac OS X 10.5: Aquamacs SLIME jogl-1.1.1
I'm pretty sure I'm running Java 1.6 (can't check now). I had no issues with hangs. Perhaps QT is the bad ingredient. /mike. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:40 PM, chris <cnuern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think you are absolutely correct. I am using -XstartOnFirstThread, > but I noticed when the application works it outputs a message about > the CocoaCompatibilty enabled. This is triggered somehow from the > jogl calls. This indicates there is some threading going on behind > the scenes as that compatibility layer is for dealing with asyncronous > calls to or from awt threads. > > I have decided to dump QT and move to a swing UI. I have read a lot > of posts about the upgrades and openGL 2D integration it has in java > 1.6 so I guess I will just try it out. I will do most of my rendering > to FBO's anyway so I won't be using the pbuffer crap in it now; jogl > exposes the base opengl calls and their extensions. QT freezes if you > don't use -XstartOnFirstThread in your java arg; this is an indicator > that mixing it with anything awt replated (as jogl certainly is) is > going to have some perhaps dire consequences. > > Two of the three hard problems I came across were due to QT; I guess > from my perspective, until they port it to cocoa, it isn't really > useful for java on the mac. > > Really rough introduction to java, however. Everything I tried went > bang in odd ways; and it wasn't clojure as much as it was jar, jni, > dylib, mac hell. Luckily I work in c++ so I am used to all this shit. > > Thanks for the reply! > > Chris > > On Dec 18, 10:17 am, AA <andk...@obtech.net> wrote: >> Generally speaking, there are complications with using OpenGL from >> multiple threads, I wonder if the calls you make via the Slime/Swank >> interface are in a different thread than the one that allocated the >> OpenGL context. Here's some documentation that may be relevant if you >> are using OS X: >> >> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/graphicsimaging/Conceptual/O... >> >> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/graphicsimaging/Conceptual/O... >> >> On Dec 17, 11:33 pm, chris <cnuern...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I am trying to write an application using the above libraries. There >> > is no point to this app at the moment other than to take my time and >> > enjoy learning clojure. I am hoping that anyone else with these >> > problems will be able to find this post, so I am going to dump. >> >> > I have had a hell of time getting things to work correctly. First I >> > installed java 1.6, only to find out that trolltech doesn't support >> > that version on os x because it is 64 bit and they haven't ported >> > their libraries to cocoa. The error you get is an initializer failure >> > in JambiObject; it takes quite a while to figure out the >> > inconsistencies. >> >> > Next I couldn't build because the ant process was finding two >> > xercesimpl.jar files somehow and this was making the construction of >> > the sax parser fail when the qt libs attempt to do their thing when >> > the java task is loading the clojure class from the build directory. >> >> > I then managed to get an app up and running; the cool thing is that >> > when you close the app it just puts you back in the repl. Then you >> > can call a function and give event handing back to QT. This is fun; I >> > don't have to shutdown to try out lots of different stuff until I hang >> > the process or crash QT. >> >> > Finally I decided to try out some openGL. I got a complete hang every >> > time I called GL, using the slime repl from emacs. I could get all >> > the rest of my gui stuff working but anything GL related would hang. >> > I tried switching from jogl to lwjgl and the result was the same. >> > super hang. >> >> > 4 hours of debugging later I tried running the helloGL QT demo and it >> > was working. I then tried it from the command line repl and it >> > worked. Finally I tried it from the slime repl and it just hung. >> >> > So my question to the gurus in this forum is why, on mac os 10.5 using >> > jvm 1.5 and the latest clojure, slime, aquamacs, clojure-contrib, qt, >> > jogl, swank-clojure, NVIDIA 8600M GT, 2.5 ghz core 2 due, 4 gigs of >> > ram, in a house that is 65 degrees fahrenheit, at 40.03N x 105.25W... >> >> > would this exact scenario hang? I really want to use slime as my >> > primary repl; I will have to use some crap null gl wrappers when I am >> > not working on gl as it is unless I can get slime to play nice with >> > gl. >> >> > Clojure is the shit! >> >> > Unfortunately, java still sucks. Not that it will stop me using >> > clojure. >> >> > Thanks! >> >> > oh, the code is at: http://github.com/cnuernber/lambinator/tree/master >> >> > Chris > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
