[PD] Pd and GEM installation woes

shreeswifty bigswift at ufl.edu
Sat Jul 26 02:31:25 CEST 2003


Scott
i am a mild end-user person who has GEM/pd and all the externals working on
WinXP Home, Linux Redhat 7.3, MacOSX and a baby gem 0.84 on Irix 6.3 working
fine.

Do you want to use the tool sor make the tools. This is a concern you must
address. There are no simple installs with this type of software because it
seems to be in constant flux.

good luck

let me know if i can help

PAt


-----Original Message-----
From: pd-list-admin at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin at iem.at]On Behalf Of J.
Scott Hildebrand
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:19 PM
To: PD-list at iem.at
Subject: [PD] Pd and GEM installation woes



     i consider myself pretty technically able. i've only started VC++ in
windows so that's new territory for me, but i have a few years experience
in linux programming, just school stuff though (nothing very deep).

     getting GEM to work in either platform has been fucking hell. i
realize it's a good idea to have every extention to Pd made available
separately, but if I CAN'T GET THIS SHIT TO WORK, you can sure as hell
believe that casual users won't be able to. i think this is all good
software but it's just too hard to set up. i believe this stuff can go
really far and its user base can get bigger and bigger, but there needs to
be some ease-of-installation improvements.

     for windows how about having an EXE file that installs everything
like a typical program would? i'm talking about Pd, GEM, all the
extentions like GrIPD, IEMLIB, GGEE, and ZEXY. still make the individual
parts available to install the old way as well... for purposes unknown and
the obvious one of portability; if you want to run pd on a PDA or
something and definitely don't need other useless stuff.

     for macOS have a same sort of EXE and do the same stuff in linux via
the typical .compile and .configure stuff. good idea???? YES!!! do it! i
would except i don't know how.

your friendly but irritated visionary,

scott


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