[PD-dev] tgrills' alternate loader function

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 23, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:

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> Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
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>> I just saw the alternate loader patch and really like that idea.  It   
>> would be handy to write externals in any script language too.  Since   
>> IOhannes and I have also just written alternate loaders of sorts (HEX  
>>  and libdir), it would be good to incorporate these two patches with   
>> yours and get it into the Pd-extended builds to try it out.
>>
> true
>
>> There isn't enough info for me to include your patch, to start with,  
>> a  diff -uw (with context) would make for a more flexible patch.   
>> Also, I  didn't see how to add new loader functions (I've never  
>> worked with  pointers to functions in C).
>>
> i updated the tracker item with a -uw patch and a small usage example.  
> I hope things are clearer now - it's simplistic.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

>> You can see IO's and my patches in CVS in packages/patches.    
>> loaderHEX-0.39-1.patch and libdir-0.38-4.patch.  Both apply smoothly  
>> to  0.38.4 and pd in CVS.
>>
> don't forget that i'm under Windows where patching tools are not that  
> comfortable.
> Also, i never work with Miller's version, so i can't be sure whether  
> the patch applies ok there.

That's what Cygwin is for!  Now you have no excuse ;)

.hc

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