[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Tue Dec 20 20:16:38 CET 2005


Yes, but "windows" is also a generic term, which "darwin" and "linux" aren't.
Perhaps "pd_microsoft", but that would be a 12-letter suffix!

M
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:03:24PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> How about pd_windows?  After all "darwin" and "linux" are full OS  
> names, so it would be consistent.
> 
> pd_linux
> pd_darwin
> pd_windows
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >This is a good idea all around... I'd suggest "pd_msw", and to search  
> >for
> >"pd_msw" extensions before falling back to ".dll".  If you don't do it
> >first I'll go on and code it here.
> >
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:12:57PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>
> >>On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>...is it impossible to use different postfix's on windows?  Not that
> >>>>it'll help, but in Xcode it's called "executable extension", so  
> >>>>maybe
> >>>>there's an option equally obscure on windoze?
> >>>>
> >>>i have always wondered why there is just .dll, and no .pd_win or
> >>>.pd_nt or whatever, similar to pd_darwin.
> >>>Just having done some short tests, doesn't seem to be a reason for
> >>>that, as everything is working ok. Clearly the pd loader would have  
> >>>to
> >>>be extended.
> >>>To my mind, it's advantageous to be able to use both the native  
> >>>shared
> >>>library extensions (like .so, .dylib, .dll) and custom pd ones.
> >>>The former to easily use it with dynamic linking and the latter to
> >>>resolve name clashes....
> >>
> >>Make a diff and I'll included it in Pd-extended.
> >>
> >>.hc
> >>
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