[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Martin Peach]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Martin Peach wrote:
> 
> 
>>But then you'll have .so for linux (and darwin?), not .pd_linux, and
>>.dll for mswindows, which was the source of the problem in the first
>>place: a shared library unrelated to pd could have the same name as a pd
>>external.
> 
> 
> That's a platform-specific problem, as both Linux and OSX rely on full
> filenames with directories. When Microsoft gets to that point, we may
> declare it to have transcended MSDOS 1.x.

Sure, but on all platforms you can have multiple search paths which are 
not forseeable by the programmer. AFAIK there's nothing to stop a user 
adding /usr/local/lib to a linux pd's path, where there could be lurking 
a hid.so entirely unrelated to pd...

Martin