[PD-dev] external weirdness only on windows

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I seem to recall that happening when things are built using MinGW  
without the -mms-bitfields flag.  Check trunk/externals/Makefile for  
well tested compile flags for MinGW.

.hc

On Mar 16, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Lorenzo wrote:

> Ok so, whilst keeping in mind IOhannes advice about getting into C  
> externals, I had a go at writing my simple 'maths' external in C.
> Everything seems to work fine and I created a test patch... but  
> *only on windows* if I re-open the saved test patch (which has 3  
> numberboxes connected to 3 inlets, and a numberbox connected to the  
> outlet) the object box (I mean the gray "thing") is disappeared and  
> only a text like a comment is there (I can even drag it around).
> If I recreate the object and attach the numberboxes again everything  
> is fine.
> If the object is without anything attached everything is fine.
> In linux everything is fine...
>
> Could it have something to do with the DLL I'm linking or is this  
> some hidden mistake in the external code?
>
> Clues appreciated.
>
> Lorenzo.
> PS: I'm using 0.42-5-extended.
>
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