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

[Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999]

you can copy the pd_linux file into your pd/extra folder (mine is 
/usr/local/lib/pd/extra/) or you can just run pd from the same folder as 
your extern with:

pd -lib file

Where "file" is the name of your extern without the .pd_linux part.

good luck.
Ben


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, J. Scott Hildebrand wrote:

> 
>        ok your two lines of code work, but they just give me the
> file.pd_linux. how do i get the .pd file out of it so i can actually use
> my external? and do i need to place my files in any certain
> pd directory? thanks,
> 
>                          scott
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> 
> >
> > argh!
> >
> > sorry, i sent my last mail last night at 2am, and just realized
> > it won't work that way -- maybe Andrew's example Makefile
> > solved your problem, but i just realized that my gcc command
> > line wasn't entirely kosher -- its argument should really be the
> > '.o' file and not the '.c' file, so:
> >
> >  bash$ gcc -c -o myfile.o myfile.c
> >  bash$ gcc -shared -export_dynamic -o myfile.pd_linux myfile.o
> >
> > ... the additional flags and the 'strip' in Andrew's Makefile
> > are probably also a good idea.
> >
> > have you had a look at Johannes' pd-external-HOWTO?  i've found
> > it very useful:  http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/externals-HOWTO
> >
> > marmosets,
> > 	Bryan
> >
> > On 23 July 2002 at 17:27:39, J. Scott Hildebrand wrote:
> >  >
> >  >    then what do i do? i can get the executable file from the object file,
> >  > but from then on i don't know what to do to create the library or .pd
> >  > file. thanks,
> >  >
> >  >               scott
> >  >
> >  > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> >  [snip]
> >  > >
> >  > >  bash$ gcc -Wall -o myextern.pd_linux myextern.o
> >  > >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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