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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> 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.

You will probably be better off using MinGW rather than VS.net.  A  
lot of stuff does not compile with Visual Studio, but almost  
everything compiles with MinGW.  Plus there is a relatively detailed  
HOWTO on how to set up your MinGW environment:

http://puredata.org/docs/developer/mingw

You should look around the developer docs as well, there is a lot of  
useful info there.

http://puredata.org/docs/developer/

.hc

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