[CM] GRACE on WinXP - supported features?

[Rick Taube]

> hello,
> i installed the binary distribution of grace on my xp machine.
> i would like to do some realtime stuff with cm (controlling  
> external synths and/or other software).
> is this possible with grace on WinXP?
>

Hi, The idea is to implement RTS functionality inside Grace itself,  
ie use callbacks from JUCE threads into lisp, rather than from an  
(external) lib like librts. Ditto MIDI and OSC: these could be  
supported in a cross platform way by Grace (JUCE  really) instead of  
by separate libs that may or may not work on random platforms.
But Grace is still just a baby and work is slow due to the start of  
semester and complicated by Lisp (as usual).

> to be more specific:
>
> can i use PORTMIDI?
> can i use RTS?
> can i use OSC?
>
> if yes - how?

the short answer is no, not now with the existing software: currently  
only clisp works on windows, it might be possible to load portmidi  
and/or osc but it would probably require some windows porting. rts  
will never work on windows. really the only hope for a cross-platform  
solution is to have Grace do all the IO/scheduling and lisp simply  
transfer algorithmic data to-from Grace