<div dir="ltr"><div>thank you Christoph! as i am still running into the same basic error as before, it looks like my configuration is still the problem. can i ask a some questions? please forgive my inexperience - just trying to get my head around the complexities of building...<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. did you download the repo as a zip? if so, what path did you put the uncompressed folder in? i put mine under the msys64/home/(user name) directory<br></div><div>2. did you type anything besides 'make' to compile the external? any flags or overrides?<br></div><div>3. 32 bit or 64 bit build? i'm doing 64 bit.<br></div><div>4. did it create a bunch of .o object files and then compile the dll? <br></div><div><br></div><div>i'm considering removing msys2 and just starting the whole thing over from scratch. i installed msys2 earlier and parts of the mingw64 toolchain, but not everything. then i found out about the right toolchain, removed a lot of the content from the mingw64/bin folder and other folders and then used pacman to install the proper toolchain. but with so many tools there's a possibility i ended up with a somewhat broken or misconfigured build setup. it would definitely also be helpful to know whether you did a 32 bit build, as i've been concentrating completely on 64 bit.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>best,<br></div><div>scott<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 6:46 AM Christof Ressi <<a href="mailto:christof.ressi@gmx.at">christof.ressi@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There is a subtle error in the Makefile, I just made a fix: <a href="https://github.com/jnonis/pd-plaits/pull/4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jnonis/pd-plaits/pull/4</a>. After that, I could compile it successfully with Msys2 in a MinGW64 Shell.<br>
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Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juli 2019 um 11:07 Uhr<br>
Von: "Scott R. Looney" <<a href="mailto:scottrlooney@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottrlooney@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Betreff: Re: [PD] - need some assistance compiling an external for Windows<br>
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 1:46 AM IOhannes m zmölnig <<a href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at" target="_blank">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>[mailto:<a href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at" target="_blank">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>]> wrote:On 7/12/19 9:15 AM, Scott R. Looney wrote:<br>
> any tips on where to copy the folder so that the path is clearly given? i'm<br>
> not 100% sure but i'm reasonably certain all my errors so far are path<br>
> related.<br>
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i think this is all wrong.<br>
you don't have to copy anything anywhere.<br>
you shouldn't even think about doing that (where did you get the idea from?)<br>
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i *think* that you are just running "make" in the wrong directory.<br>
you should run it in the "pd-plaits-master" directory (which contains<br>
files like "plts~.cpp")¹<br>
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i am absolutely running make in the correct directory. i installed the whole msys2/mingw64 toolchain, i opened the shell for mingw64, and navigated to my copy of the repo, which i downloaded as a zip, uncompressed and moved into what i believed to be a convenient location under the msys64/home/(username) directory<br>
once you have installed the proper toolchain (make, compiler,...) the<br>
*only* thing you might have to adjust is the location of your<br>
Pd-installation<br>
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Pd 64 bit is installed in its usual spot. nothing unusual there.<br>
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1. download pd-plaits and unzip it<br>
2. open the MinGW32-shell (for building a 32bit external) resp the<br>
MinGW64-shell (for building a 64bit external)<br>
3. change into the pd-plaits directory<br>
$ cd pd-plaits-master<br>
4. run make<br>
$ make<br>
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this will create a "plts~.dll" for you (the name's the same for both<br>
32bit and 64bit externals; if you want both, you should rename the 64bit<br>
external to "plts~.m_amd64")<br>
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yup i have done all of this (the 64 Bit route) and i'm still not getting anywhere. i understand i am a newbie to compiling but i really have tried to follow all the directions correctly. all i can guess is that somehow it's not looking for files in the active directory. the fact that Lucas couldn't compile it either is i think significant and speaks towards a non-standard compiling configuration on the repo. there's an Xcode project file so perhaps he tried pd-lib-builder and then gave up and switched to Xcode to compile it. i will say i ran all of this on my Mac using mingw64/gcc and 'make all' with the Makefile.pdlibbuilder and it created a whole mess of object (.o) files but also created the .pd_darwin file correctly.<br>
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i think i'll take Lucas's advice and compile something that should work smoothly in order to verify that the method i've been following is sound.<br>
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best,<br>
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