[PD-dev] Pd include paths on Windows

[Miller Puckette]

Thanks for spotting this... I think if there are already installations in
$(PROGRAMFILES)/pd we should stick to that.  I'll go on and try to change it
in Roman's script :)

M

On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 12:56:34AM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-12-05 at 23:17 +0100, katja wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In Makefile.pdlibbuilder I'm trying to define some standard Pd include
> > paths. On Windows with MinGW this used to be (if I'm not mistaken):
> > 
> > - $(PROGRAMFILES)/pd/src (vanilla Pd)
> 
> Before there was an installer, Pd for Windows was available as zip
> archive and as such could be installed anywhere. It might make sense to
> use that as an include path, but Pd cannot safely be assumed to be
> installed there. Being able to install it without admin privileges (in
> other words: not to the path above) was mentioned as an advantage of the
> archive (some called it the 'portable' version).
> 
> > - $(PROGRAMFILES)/pd/include/pdextended (Pd-extended)
> 
> Yes, the installer proposes this path.
> 
> > Now I've installed Pd 0.46-7 with the experimental new installer from
> > Miller's downloads, for which must be set:
> > 
> > - $(PROGRAMFILES)/Pure Data/src
> > 
> > Is this path experimental too?
> 
> I am to blame for this. I set that as the default in the installer
> script and Miller obviously didn't change it. I had the user in mind
> rather than the developer. I chose it because 'Pure Data' is the
> canonical name of the software.
> 
> >  Will it stay like this?
> 
> I believe it is marked experimental exactly for the reason to be able to
> address issues like this.
> 
> >  I would hope
> > that at least the whitespace could be taken out of the 'Pure Data'
> > component so you could define relative paths without spaces.
> 
> I might not clearly see what you mean (relative to what?), but are
> whitespaces still an issue? $(PROGRAMFILES) resolves to a path with
> spaces on the majority of the Windows systems in the world anyway (often
> to 'C:\Program Files\').
> 
> Roman



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