[PD-dev] double precision pd?

[Dan Wilcox]

My gut feeling is that this is best kept as two separate builds for the platform. IMO we don't want to have to resort to a lot of trickery fighting the system's preferred modus operandi as it will, as you write, likely blow up in our faces. 

> On Jun 12, 2023, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:08:36 +0200
> From: IOhannes m zm?lnig <zmoelnig at iem.at <mailto:zmoelnig at iem.at>>
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> On 6/8/23 15:23, IOhannes m zm?lnig wrote:
>>> Oh no, compilation will be complex.
>> 
>> Not really.
>> You basically have to build twice...
> 
> oh no, i forgot about the intricacies of the windows build.
> 
> with macOS and Linux we have this nice single "pd" binary (or "pd64").
> but with Windows we need the supporting pd.dll library where all the 
> guts live (so externals have something to link against), and as of now, 
> double-precision externals on Windows will link against pd.dll as well 
> (but expect that to be contain the double-variant).

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