[PD-dev] getting started at PD Dev in VS.net

Martin Peach martinrp at vax2.concordia.ca
Fri Mar 3 21:47:22 CET 2006


Conor wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Are there any instructions anywhere on how to set up a development 
> environment for PD. I wish to development externals. Should I need to 
> compile the full PD project or should I merely link to the pre existing 
> libs/dll's. I don't have that much experience digging through makefiles 
> hence I don't want to spend my weekend at that ;) I was hoping to 
> develop using visual studio.net.
> Any  instructions would be most welcome.

Briefly, you create an empty project to build a console app without any 
precompiled header, then you set it to make a dll. You need to include 
m_pd.h from the pd source and you link against pd.lib which is in 
pd/bin. Your setup function has to be declared __declspec(dllexport).
http://iem.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/ explains most of the rest.

Martin




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