To continue the conversation from the beta forum (not sure if it's just me locked out or not )

Any word on an HDK release for OSX?

M

Hello,

You are definitely correct in your assumption. There is and HDK toolkit for OSX as of release 9.5.163. There is more information on it in the Houdini 9.5 Public Beta section, now locked, down below. Please note

“All of the developer tools are included with every machine on the install DVD. They are not installed by default.

GCC is the default compiler for OS X. All of the tools are free.”

Regards,

Hmm, I'm a little confused. I have 9.5.170 installed and I can't find the HDK stuff anywhere, the thread in the beta forum seemed to die out unresolved. It seems MikeTaylor made some changes but it looks like they are not in the currently distributed builds - Do I need to download something separate?

The developer tools comment is about the Apple dev tools, I have all that installed but there's nothing to build

Thanks again.

M

hi. not sure if this is applicable to OSX as well, but you may have to run hdkinstall command in order to install hdk headers?

/Library/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/9.5.175/Resources/bin/hcustom

I haven't tried it yet but you can be the first to let us know


I got curious and tried building SOP_Star. It starts but then just sits there without doing anything.


Ah, eventually it starts. Not sure why it takes so long though (few minutes). It fails on my machine though with:
ld: in /Library/Frameworks//Python.framework/Python, missing required architecture x86_64 in file

Aha - found it. I always forget that spotlight stays away from system folders.
Built and used the COP examples, so all seems fine, also didn't have any problems building SOP_Star .. weird.

Thanks so much for the information, I have a couple of projects I've been wanting to start for some time now

M