[PD] Loading libs and path (w32) Was:Re: Trying to get GEM going on Pd Vanilla / Win10

[Lucas Cordiviola]

Hi Björn, David:

There's a good windows way to manage loading libs and path.

Mainly is a .cmd file that is used to start pd with whatever options.

With this folder structure:

Some parent folder (A)

A/externals

A/pd

A/x.cmd

(this folder struc keeps things in a modular way, so when the next Pd is released you can easily delete and replace.)

the .cmd file is just a text (saved as .cmd) that you can edit for whatever, it must be only one line and separeted with space (and also a TAB for better spacing)  for example:

%CD%\pd\bin\pd -noprefs -path %CD%\externals\cyclone -lib %CD%\externals\zexy -path %CD%\externals\mrpeach

%CD% passes the full path, so you can use it in a USB stick.


For an up-to-date list of startupflags browse the explorer to the pd/bin dir an do Shift-right-click in the white space until you get the option “open command window here” there type “pd -help” without “ “.

Try :

-font-face Consolas -font-weight normal -font-size 12

Consolas is a system font since win vista, it fits well in the boxes.


Salutti,
Lucarda



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From: Pd-list <pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at> on behalf of Björn Eriksson <miulew at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:23 PM
To: Pd-List
Subject: Re: [PD] Trying to get GEM going on Pd Vanilla / Win10

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<mailto: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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