[PD-dev] pd-double: how to selectively build external libs for development?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:56 PM, "katja" <katjavetter at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> wrote:
> 
> > I think skipping 'make install' alltogether and just running things directly
> > is much easier for dev work.  Something like this:
> >
> > cd pd-double/pd
> > ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-double-precision && make
> > cd extra
> > ln -s ../../externals/creb
> > cd ..
> > ./src/pd
> >
> > Now you have a way to run pd-double's Pd using the creb you are working on.
> >  Then to build creb after mods, just do:
> >
> > cd pd-double/externals
> > make creb
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Regarding a 'local build', there is some difference in the two build
> systems for vanilla Pd (old/new) and the new build system is causing
> me troubles, let me try to explain.
> 
> With the old build system, if you did make without install, it would
> create a local dir 'bin/' and copy executables pd, pd-watchdog,
> pdreceive and pdsend into it. The directory structure of the local
> build was very similar to the 'Resources' dir in a Pd or Pd-extended
> app on OSX. If you put an externals dir in 'extra/', Pd would see that
> dir. I've checked that this is also the case for double precision pd
> which I built with the old build system (before we had pd-double git).
> I can just copy a double precision creb dir with executables into
> 'extra/', see creb in the help browser, and instantiate creb objects
> (with namespace, that is).
> 
> With the new build system instead, if you do not install, the
> executables pd, pd-watchdog, pdreceive and pdsend remain in the 'src/'
> dir. You can start pd from there, but it won't find it's extra's. I've
> tried several approaches to make it look like a local install
> (manually creating a 'bin/' with pd executables, alternatively
> ./configure --prefix=/my/path/to/pd-svn/pd/). This helps - to a
> certain extent. The regular extra's that come with vanilla Pd are
> found. But if you add an external lib dir... no fun.
> 
> The old build system was much more convenient for local test builds.
> We've removed it from pd-double but I will try it in my hacked pd-svn
> tomorrow, to see if things work better.

Hey Katja,

AH, right, you need to include a symlink to src/ called bin/ then it
should all work.  I do this a lot, so I know it works once it setup.  
But I might not always remember the details on setting it up:  So like
this:

cd pd-double/pd
ln -s src bin

.hc