[PD] Pd-GUI-Rewrite 0.43 status: usable

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:31 +0100, "András Murányi" <muranyia at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > > There has been lots of work on the 0.43 Pd GUI Rewrite, and it should
> > be
> > > > quite useable now.  Please try it for any daily patching and report any
> > > > issues that you might have so that they can be fixed.  There is a bunch
> > of
> > > > fun new stuff possible with plugins, like you can bind to any key, for
> > > > example make "O" give you an [osc~] and "P" give you a [pack] while
> > Ctrl-O
> > > > and Ctrl-P keep their original meanings.
> > > >
> > > > For a more complete ChangeLog and links to nightly builds, see:
> > > > http://puredata.info/dev/PdGuiRewrite
> > > >
> > >
> > > Then it may be time to examine why on my AMD64 system neither my
> > > own-built
> > > pd, neither others' 64-bit pd binaries are willing to cooperate with the
> > > rewrite. I have tried all 64-bit builds i could get my hands on but the
> > > rewrite refused to load the libs from any of them.
> > >
> > > Anyone who successfully used pd with pd-gui-rewrite on 64-bit?
> > >
> > > Andras
> >
> > The code is pretty simple, so it should work, but I don't have a 64-bit
> > system to work on.  I'd really like to get everything building on
> > 64-bit, so please do post problems/errors.
> >
> >
> Well, now I'm back to an i386 pd-extended. The newest gui-rewrite says
> "ERROR: 'pd' never showed up, 'pd-gui' quitting!". Is this normal?
> (Earlier
> versions started up alrite, just didn't load the libs.)

If you haven't run "make install" then you have to run it like this:

cd 0.43
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
cd src
./pd

> 
> Andras
> 
> PS i'd be happy to give you ssh to my 64-bit box if that helps.

Yes, I could do that.  I'll send you my ssh key in a PGP signed email.


> Then, I'm very interested in the PPA. I have no idea how to put together
> a
> source package, i also don't know makefiles (yet). Do you think I could
> manage...?

That's a good idea.  I was just working on getting pd-gui-rewrite branch
to build with 'debbuild'.  Once I get that, I'll try submitting it to
launchpad.

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