[PD] Externals - Compilation or Usage Problems

[Martin Peach]

Chris wrote:
> Hi,
> I checked out the documentations from CVS because I wanted to try the
> External-making-howto. I compiled the helloworld-example there with the
> included Makefile.
> Compilation worked without any problems, but when I try to to load it in
> PD with pd -lib /home/chris/pd_externals/example1/helloworld.pd_linux it
> says "can't load library"
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>   
I think helloworld is an external, not a library, so you should either 
run pd from the same directory that contains helloworld, or put 
helloworld into /usr/lib/pd/extra (or add its path to pd's path dialog 
in File->Path...). Then just make a [helloworld] in a new patcher window.

Martin