[PD-dev] Re: flext installation - 4

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Marc,
if you want to build any flext-based externals (including the flext
tutorials), you'll have to build the flext library beforehand - just
unpacking the archive is not sufficient.
In the flext directory, edit the config-*-*.txt file to match your system
configuration, then run the build-*.* script, in your case
config.pd.msvc.txt and build-pd-msvc.bat . Under Windows, running the bat
file should be done from the "Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt" as
already discussed.

After that step you should have flext library files in the flext subfolder
of your PD installation.
Then you can finally proceed building flext based externals.

good luck,
Thomas

> > Did you build the flext library beforehand? If yes, it should reside
> > in the flext/pd-msvc folder somewhere.
> > You'll use have to adjust the path somewhere in the project settings
> > of the tutorial examples, so that the library can be found.
>
> I altered the config ...txt file and ran "build-pd-msvc.bat" - no lib
> created.
> How do I build this library (from within VC++)? Sorrf for such simple
> questions, but it is a show stopper (as they say here)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -marc
>
> PS
> Just a comment. I downloaded both "flext-0.4.6-pd-win.zip" as well
> as "flext-tut-0.4.1-pd-win.zip". Both contain the config-pd-msvc.txt
> file and the corresponding .bat, but only the later (tut) contains the
> pd-msvc folder. Maybe it would be good to put config things in only one
> of the zips...
>
>