Quicktime removed by apple

[Leimy]

https://sdk.steinberg.net/viewtopic.php?t=229
Seems to offer advice on working around this if folks are hitting the following bug:

screen.c:9:10: fatal error: 'QuickTime/QuickTime.h' file not found
#include <QuickTime/QuickTime.h> // for full screen
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Leimy]

But that requires downloading an older SDK... Perhaps there's a way to move to the AVFramework.

[0intro]

I don't use macOS, but I'd happily accept a PR for that.

[Leimy]

We're also still building against Carbon - which I think is also extremely deprecated if not going to be completely gone soon.

I'll happily give it a shot to see what it takes to get this working with more modern macOS frameworks, but I will not be able to start in on this for a bit - in case there's anyone else who wants to give it a shot.

[monarrk]

hi there, I'm having this same problem as well. I do not have the skills to fix it, but if anyone else could try to revisit this I would really appreciate it. thanks!

[Leimy]

There's a drawterm that's part of 9front that seems to work for me just fine.

I think everything is MIT licensed these days, perhaps we should try to merge things?

http://drawterm.9front.org

[awkfan77]

http://drawterm.9front.org isn't MIT licensed.

[Leimy]

https://github.com/9fans/drawterm/blob/master/LICENSE indicates this was re-licensed by Russ Cox. That doesn't mean that the forks that exist at 9front, https://github.com/vat9/drawterm, and probably other places are automatically re-licensed I suppose. But I'm also not sure what the barriers are to that being done.

[0intro]

You could ask them to re-license under MIT. I doubt they would refuse, it's a good step forward.

[Leimy]

Ok, I've asked, and it sounds like someone is going to go ahead and make the chance to their license to MIT as well.

[Leimy]

Seems like it's MIT licensed now.

[EdoardoLaGreca]

The problem persist. I was trying to compile this drawterm but it still complains about the QuickTime.h header. I use MacOS but I know nothing about Apple's frameworks and libraries for MacOS so the best I can do is testing solutions from other users.

Here is an overview of MacOS frameworks, including deprecated ones.

9front's drawterm runs fine but there is an annoying issue: the user interface is really really small on Retina displays (bad scaling) which makes text barely readable. Even after connecting, everything is really small. I contacted them via IRC and they said that it's a WONTFIX on their side. One could submit a patch, but it may not be accepted (I don't remember exactly what they said).