OSX, Apache, PHP, and MySql

I first tried out MAMP. Very easy to download install and BAM! you have a MAMP server running. I started to run into complexities when I had to install pear packages on the MAMP server and needed those in my development environment as well, basically when I was in shell and Eclipse.

I then ventured down the route of installing those things in the system and using the OSX preinstalls where available. OSX already comes with Apache and it was easy to uncommented the one line to start PHP5. The last thing was MySQL. I had used MacPorts previously, and had a decent experience with it, but a coworker of mine recently suggested Homebrew as an awesome way to install packages on OSX. I decided to give it a shot. Installation was a breeze and MySql was up and running in no time. Mad props to this dudes blog post.

Now that I have all the frameworks in place, next steps are to get Propel ORM a shot for database object oriented goodness. :)

Installing ArdourXchange on OS X for Ardour / Harrison Mixbus

I will go through the steps to install ArdourXchange on OS X to be used with Ardour(http://ardour.org/) or Harrison Mixbus(http://mixbus.harrisonconsoles.com/).

First, we need to get Wine(http://www.winehq.org/) installed.  MacPorts is an easy and safe way to build and install Wine on OS X. Follow the instructions here(http://www.macports.org/install.php) to install MacPorts. Note, you will be required to install Apple's Developer Tools from your OS X DVD or download it from ADC(http://developer.apple.com/) if its not installed already. Once MacPorts is installed, open a terminal and enter the command below.

$ sudo port install wine

This will run for a bit, and usually starts the big fan on my MacBook while its building. You should see an output like below if all goes well.
---> Computing dependencies for wine
---> Fetching wine
---> Verifying checksum(s) for wine
---> Extracting wine
---> Applying patches to wine
---> Configuring wine
---> Building wine
---> Staging wine into destroot
---> Installing wine @1.0.1_3
---> Activating wine @1.0.1_3
---> Cleaning wine

To test try getting the version(yours may differ).

$ wine --version
wine-1.0.1

Now run the ArdourXchange setup.exe, note your path to the EXE may differ:

$ wine Downloads/setup.exe

Once the setup has finished, start up Mixbus and AAF files will show up in the open session dialog. Opening them will start the ArdourXchange(http://www.avtoolkit.co.uk/) conversion.