Building Snack for MacOS X
In order to use Snack you will have to install Tcl/Tk 8.4.5 or later first.
Download from
http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/TclTkAqua/
In order to build Snack you also need to have Apple's developer tools installed.
Change directory to unix/ and type
./configure --with-tcl=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework --with-tk=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework
Edit the Makefile and specify the Tcl include file directory as
/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers
and for the Tk include files
/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Headers
now type
make
Install using:
sudo make install
MacOS 8.x 9.x
In order to use Snack you will have to install Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 first.
Building Snack using Metrowerks CodeWarrior
Use the CodeWarrior project file: snack.mcp.sit.hqx
You will have to specify the location of the Tcl/Tk include files which are part of the Tcl/Tk source distribution. This is the default compiler for the Snack Macintosh binaries.
Building Snack using MPW
Snack can be compiled using Apple's free MPW compiler which can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/
You will have to edit the makefile in order to specify the location of the Tcl/Tk include files which are part of the Tcl/Tk source distribution.
Installation
You must put the file snack.shlb in the standard library location, i.e. the "Tool Command Language" folder within the Extensions folder.
You have to give Tcl scripts ample memory. This is done by marking the wish icon and selecting Edit | Show info | Memory.
You also have to use the 'millions of colors' display setting in order to get spectrograms to display correctly. Failure to do this will cause the computer to lock up when running scripts that display spectrograms.