<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>> On Saturday, May 11, 2019, 5:47:17 PM PDT, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi@gmx.at> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp21290009yiv5080859410"><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px;"><div>> ok, I don't see a problem here. the only symbol a Pd external exports (or should export) is the setup function - which is retrieved "manually" with GetProcAddress / dlsym. In theory all Pd externs could have the same setup function, at least on the platforms I know... Note that for example VST plugins all export the same entry point and it seems to work fine :-) <br></div><div><br></div><div>Not just in theory, but in practice at line 253 of s_loader.c</div><div><br></div><div>So why aren't all (or at least nearly all) external developers simply using "setup" as the entry point?<br></div><br><div>-Jonathan<br>
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