[PD-dev] problem making a helloworld external

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Wed Apr 26 15:17:05 CEST 2006


walter jenner wrote:
> hello there..
> 
> i tried to make the helloworld external described in j.m.zmoelnigs
> "howto write an external for pd".

great!

> 
> i used visual studio .net 2003 to build the dll, and had no errors with it.
> 
> then i tried using the external, and this did not work. the dll resides
> in the same directory as the pd file which should use the helloworld
> object.
> 
> i get this error from the pd main window:
> 
> load_object: Symbol "helloworld_setup" not found
> helloworld
> ... couldn't create
> 
> what a possible mistakes i could have made?

most likely you haven't read the archives...

http://lists.puredata.info/search/PD-dev?query=helloworld
http://lists.puredata.info/search/PD-list?query=helloworld

you must declare a function to be exported, in order to make pd see it;
in this case this would be "helloworld_setup"

mfg.asdr
IOhannes




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