[PD] Installation on linux

[Philippe Langlois]

HI All,

Just to give a brief account on my experience of building PD on linux: 
using debian linux, i got the deb packages and when i ran it, i
couldn't get the audio out even if my xmms and mpg123 were playing
fine.

I tried to recompile  0.36 and 0.37-testX (see other problems later)
but it changed nothing.

In fact, there's a workaround here:
instead of running with
pd -oss

try to run with:
pd -oss -noadc

There's no sound input, but at least you can PRODUCE some sounds.

Better would be to install ALSA. That's another story once again. It
seems to beMUCH easier to install ALSA by enabling its option in the
Kernel in kernels 2.5.X than to compile it as external modules with
kernel 2.4.X.

Compiling PD was another set of problems:
- you have to manually add -I/usr/include/tcl-8.3 or so to your
  makefile after the ./configure process otherwise it does not
  compile.
- you may have to change the #include "tk.h" into a  #include "t_tk.h" 
  for t_main.c
- you may have to delete the options -Wall and -Wnoshadow in order to
  prevent compile abort due to "declaration of 'xxx' shadows a global
  declaration".
- you may have to add -ltcl to the makefile in LIB in order not to
  have linking errors.

Remember that's based ONLY on my experience and may not reflect a
proper way to do things considering that i'm starting with PD.

Also, I was using kernel 2.4.18 on a laptop with an ALi M5451 as an
audio card.

My .2 cents and lots of hope and strength wishes to everybody who is starting
the adventure ;-)

Philippe.