[PD] Pd and GEM installation woes

[bbogart at ryerson.ca]

Hey Scott

Compiling Gem is a pain, but you only have to do that on linux! (or if you want to run the CVS versions) but there are pre-compiled binaries for OSX and Windows.

Not that easy to find. for gem-87 only windows binaries are available. But you can get OSX binaries from chris clepper's site. As for PD the windows comes per-compiled, as well you can get an easy double-click installer from Adam Lindsay's site. 

Has someone make a package of all the CVS externals compiled for windows/osx?

I think you can get both of these links from the PD webring.

Keep hacking/asking, you'll make it happen! 

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Scott Hildebrand" <jshildebrand at ucdavis.edu>
Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:18 pm
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 
> experiencein 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 
> individualparts 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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