[PD-dev] pd-extended build system questions

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

> Hallo!
>
>> Wow, that's great that you have a shared library already!  Since  
>> Pd-extended is built with gcc on all platforms, porting the build  
>> process to other platforms isn't too difficult, its mostly a  
>> matter of getting the right flags, which are listed in externals/ 
>> Makefile.
>
> It (should) build already on all platform - but it doesn't find the  
> library ...
>
>> As for using the shared library, I think that you have to  
>> explicitly load it in each external.  You can look at pd/src/ 
>> s_loader.c to see how Pd does it.  An external is just a shared  
>> libray that Pd loads, so its the same mechanism.
>
> Hm ... can't this be made easier ?
> E.g. if I link the externals to the shared library with the  
> hardcoded path it works - but I cant' do that of course and so the  
> externals can't finde the library.
>
> So is there a way how the externals can find the shared library,  
> whithout copying it into a global library path like /usr/lib/ ?

I think you can link to it using a relative path, or even better,  
just the same dir, i.e. "."  Mac OS X has handy tools for managing  
library paths (otool -L and install_name_tool), I don't know about  
other platforms.

.hc

>
> Thanks,
> LG
> Georg



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