[PD] Trying to get GEM going on Pd Vanilla / Win10

[Björn Eriksson]

Thanks for clarifications IOhannes!
I would really prefer to not declare anything with specific path references
like this one with the Gem-0.93.3 folder. I understand it will induce
problems if shared and if drives/sticks changes places, OS´s. The reason
the versioned folder got there was due to the suggestion from Oliver to
unzip all Gem.zip into the "extra" folder, which I did and got it there. I
also tried to set path preferences  (from menu - File-Preference-Path, also
File-Preference-Startup, but it seems that neither of them are remembered
after restart of Pd.

Will try to rename the versioned folder to just Gem.... instead of
Gem-0.93.9  so to get rid of the dependecies. I hope it will work like that.

Guess I was happy that Gem finally started to work on this machine I am at,
so didn´t see the fatalities of the versioned folder. (why is it anyway
included in the zip-file if it causes this instabilties?)

All the best!
Björn Eriksson

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:25 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> On 2016-08-04 03:23, Björn Eriksson wrote:
> > In the patch I do have to [declare -lib /Gem-0.93.3/Gem] or with direct
> > path where Gem is installed, on my external harddrive that is [declare
> -lib
> > G:/pd/extra/Gem-0.93.3/Gem].
>
> well, that sounds like a bad layout.
> the point of using [declare] is to create patches with dependency
> information that is platform independent and sharable.
>
> for instance it makes little sense to use [declare -lib
> D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem]: while it might work, the patch will
> break as soon as you give it away (or port it to another computer, that
> is not running windows ANDOR has a cd-drive occupying the "D:" letter
> rather than yoiur USB-stick ANDOR has a different filesystem layout
> ANDOR ...
>
> sp, if you put your externals into extra/, then you shouldn't use
> version-prefixes.
> if you do want to organise the directories the way you like, use the
> preferences to add additional paths.
>
> e.g. extracting Gem to D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem\ you could add
> "D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\" to your search-paths (in the
> Pd-preferences) and then use [declare -lib Gem] in your patch.
> then, if you want to migrate the patch to another machine, install Gem
> to /home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool/Gem/ and add
> "/home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool" to your Pd-preferences.
> then run your patch.
> without any modifications!
>
>
> fgasdmr
> IOhannes
>
>
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