[PD-dev] build system

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That build system was originally intended to be a hand-selected  
collection of objects in a flat name space.  Then people (like me) got  
lazy and also threw in some libraries to get things building, so it  
became a big mess.  Since I made pmpd have a nice, standalone build  
system, I didn't think anyone would miss that.  If you want, those  
files could be restored.

As for compiling lots of externals in one step, try this, it works  
every night on many machines:

http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdExtended

You could replace the 'pd' folder with vanilla if you want.

Or you could do this:
cd externals
make

.hc

On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:57 PM, cyrille henry wrote:

> ok. there was a makefile for pmpd, and you changed it.
> that's not a problem since the new one work as good as the old one,  
> and i'm hapy if that make things better for you.
> but this is completely unrelated to the other build system.
>
> the old build system (in build/linux) was compiling pmpd and lot's  
> of externals, in 1 simple step.
> why destroying it? you don't have to use it if you don't like it.  
> you don't have to remove other peoples work.
>
> how should i do now to compile most externals in 1 single step?
>
> cyrille
>
> Le 13/07/2010 19:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>
>>
>> I removed pmpd from externals/build/src when I converted pmpd to  
>> use the
>> Makefile/libdir template, which Pd-extended also uses. This  
>> template is
>> not tied to Pd-extended at all, and is standalone. If you want to  
>> build
>> pmpd, just:
>>
>> cd externals/pmpd
>> make
>>
>> That seems like a much better option than the old system IMHO.  
>> Ideally,
>> all libraries would use this template, it makes building and  
>> packaging
>> much easier on all platforms.
>>
>> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/MakefileTemplate
>>
>> .hc
>>
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>>
>>
>> As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
>> glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
>> this we should do freely and generously. - Benjamin Franklin
>>
>>
>>




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