[PD] getting an external to work!!!!

[Andrew W. Schmeder]

>          before i write an external to do what i need it to do, i'm trying
> to get ANY external into pd... and i'm having a hard time. i've compiled the
> .c file and now i have an object file (.o). what do i do now? by the way i
> am in linux. thans,

You need to use ld to turn it into a dynamic-linkable module.

# example pd makefile;
# -------------------------------------

pd_linux: myextern.pd_linux

.SUFFIXES: .pd_linux

LINUXCFLAGS = -DPD -O2 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer \
    -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror \
    -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch

# location of m_pd.h
PDINC =  -I/path-to-pd/include


.c.pd_linux:
        gcc $(CFLAGS) $(LINUXCFLAGS) $(PDINC)   -c *.c
        ld -export_dynamic -shared -o $*.pd_linux *.o -lc
        strip --strip-unneeded $*.pd_linux
        rm $*.o

clean:
        rm *.pd_linux


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