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Christoph Hart

@David-Healey yup you can set it to test mode amd then it just prints out what it would do. It‘s of limited use but I‘ll keep it in until this has stabilized.

All the hours we spend with this subject and now it‘s just „let the robot do that lol“…

David Healey

@Christoph-Hart Dry run tells me it wants to install components that aren't needed and the wrong version of libwebkit2gtk for my system - I think I'll be doing it manually for a while yet

[TEST MODE] Would execute: sudo apt-get -y install build-essential make llvm clang libfreetype6-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxcursor-dev mesa-common-dev libasound2-dev freeglut3-dev libxcomposite-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtk-3-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev ladspa-sdk

Oh it's also checking if GCC is lower than 11. That's no longer an issue, I'm building on v15.

Would check: gcc --version ≤ 11

I think it should prompt for the config. I'd probably want ReleaseWithFaust.

[TEST MODE] Would execute: make CONFIG=Release AR=gcc-ar -j`nproc --ignore=2`

Didn't give a choice to install and use faust, IPP or FFTW.

Christoph Hart

@David-Healey yes I also noticed the faust config already. Which model are you using? If there are any wrong dependencies it should figure this out but we can of course improve the script I oneshotted it in 30 minutes.

David Healey

@Christoph-Hart I'm using code llama - I only have 6GB VRAM so I'm rather limited.

@Christoph-Hart said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

if there are any wrong dependencies it should figure this out

Ah maybe it doesn't do that in test mode it just runs through the commands.

Christoph Hart

@David-Healey yeah a 6gb local model won‘t get you too far. I tried it with Opus 4.5 and it even fixed a compile error I introduced in the last commit…

David Healey

@Christoph-Hart Yeah if I get into it I'll use a cloud model.

Christoph Hart

@David-Healey the free one from opencode should be fine too (Big Pickle).

David Healey

@Christoph-Hart Aha I missed that one.

David Healey

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David Healey

Well colour me impressed! It fixed the bug.

Edit: Actually maybe desaturate me, I'm not sure if it hasn't introduced another issue.... more checking required.

Edit 2: Na fix doesn't work.

David Healey

@Christoph-Hart said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

@dannytaurus no joke. Just run Claude code / Opencode with this agent and tell it to install everything so you can use HISE. Let's embrace the future, rofl.

So I've been thinking and this doesn't make the process any simpler for a newcomer, it actually makes it more complicated and harder to solve when the AI screws up.

I have a much better solution. A simple bash/batch script. This is what I've been using for years for automated builds.

All a new user would need to do is run install_hise.sh. It could even detect an existing install and prompt to update instead.

Christoph Hart

@David-Healey We could also provide a "static" build script, but this still has a few advantages. It basically behaves like a build script but is able to interpret error messages and try other stuff while the build script just fails and we'll get a new forum topic where we need to explain how to extract a zip file.

For example the current version on windows tries to download IPP / Faust using a Powershell command, which somehow failed in my VM, no idea why, don't care. The Agent realized this and switched to another method (curl / wget), then validated the files after downloading.

Currently I'm fighting against some issues where the compilation of HISE chokes at the memory but I can't say whether this is an issue of my limited VM resources or something the agent does wrong.

But once the process goes through we can just tell the agent to create a bash script / bat file that performs all those steps, then everybody can choose whether to run the script or use the agent.

dannytaurus

@Christoph-Hart said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

Currently I'm fighting against some issues where the compilation of HISE chokes at the memory but I can't say whether this is an issue of my limited VM resources or something the agent does wrong.

Sounds like my issues with compiling HISE on an 8GB MacBook Pro. Basically impossible.

dannytaurus

@Christoph-Hart said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

then everybody can choose whether to run the script or use the agent.

I thought the point of this whole endeavour is to make it a single path for beginners.

Christoph Hart

@dannytaurus yup it's a single path, you can just decide whether you want a robot to hold your hands or not. There will be no one solution that suits everybody, some people have experience with AI agents, some have experience with command line scripts, some prefer manual installation of everything.

David Healey

@dannytaurus said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

Sounds like my issues with compiling HISE on an 8GB MacBook Pro. Basically impossible.

Something wrong there, I compile on a VM with less.

David Healey

@Christoph-Hart said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

once the process goes through we can just tell the agent to create a bash script / bat file that performs all those steps, then everybody can choose whether to run the script or use the agent.

Sounds good. The script should provide a nice interface, ask if they want to upgrade or install, which branch they want to use, etc.

Given what you said about one method failing and another succeeding and not caring because the AI handled it, how can we trust that the script it produces is bullet proof on all systems... I think there will still be some manual work required.

dannytaurus

@David-Healey said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

Something wrong there, I compile on a VM with less.

Yep, definitely something wrong. Could be the way macOS handles RAM. Could have been something else on my system.

I bought a 32GB MacBook Air and it flies now, so I don't care what was causing it.

David Healey

@dannytaurus said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

Could have been something else on my system.

Was it an Apple silicon system? That might be the difference.

dannytaurus

@David-Healey said in Export Setup Wizard Problems:

Was it an Apple silicon system? That might be the difference.

Yeah, it was an M1 MacBook Air. It was a really nice machine, and everything else worked fine. I could run large Logic projects, have loads of running apps, multiple Safari windows, etc.

It was just compiling HISE where it completely fell down.

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