[PD-dev] pd compiled for web with emscripten

[Christof Ressi]

Wow, this is very promising!

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. November 2019 um 19:17 Uhr
> Von: "Claude Heiland-Allen" <claude at mathr.co.uk>
> An: pd-dev at lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD-dev] pd compiled for web with emscripten
>
> Hi,
> 
> I updated it to Pd-0.50-2 (not updated the experimental Gem part yet).
> Instructions remain the same, the changes are in the github repositories:
> https://mathr.co.uk/empd
> 
> Example generative techno patch:
> https://mathr.co.uk/dynamo/live to listen
> https://mathr.co.uk/dynamo for info
> https://code.mathr.co.uk/dynamo for source
> 
> Check the licenses for your libraries when making web pages like this, 
> you might have to distribute the corresponding source code too.
> 
> 
> Claude
> 
> On 09/01/2019 17:36, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > As a proof of concept I modified pure-data and libpd just enough to 
> > get it to compile with Emscripten and run some patches:
> >
> > https://mathr.co.uk/empd/
> >
> > Only -nogui mode.  You can make GUIs using SDL2 and OpenGL, or using 
> > other web APIs (HTML forms, SVG, etc).
> >
> > Performance (provided you compile in Release mode) is about 2x worse 
> > than native in one of my tests.
> >
> > Changes were mainly annoying rather than hard:
> > - Emscripten is stricter about calling function pointers with the 
> > correct type, this means pd_typedmess explodes from 6 cases to 60.
> > - I also needed to special-case pd_objectmaker in more places, because 
> > its methods have return values other than void.
> > - These type errors are only visible at runtime, so I may have missed 
> > some - please report.
> >
> > Some other smaller fixes I may make pull-requests for soon.
> >
> >
> > Claude
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