[PD-dev] autotools magic for externals?

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Hi all,

I've been trying to use autotools (autoconf and friends) to build pdlua, 
but have ended up in a world of pain and deleted my experiments out of 
frustration.  I tried to understand the system used in 
CVS/externals/moocow/, but the wizardry was somewhat beyond me.  Even 
more so with the Gem system.

So, is there a set of macros I can drop into my acinclude.m4 that 
provide a nice auto-n00b-friendly environment as a base for creating a 
configure.ac and a Makefile.am for a Pd external that requires some 
libraries?

In other news regarding pdlua, I created a Makefile.static for those 
that want to compile Lua into the external statically.  Currently only 
in the development version, soon to be pdlua-0.3 once I've added enough 
new features to merit a release.

Thanks for any input,


Claude
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