[PD] anyone successfully building PD themselves on windows?

[Josh Steiner]

rock on!  thanks for the link.

carmen wrote:

>On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:53:06AM -0700, Josh Steiner wrote:
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>>hey all, i'd like to experiment with different tcl/tk versions on my 
>>windows pd install to see if i can track down this nasty bug where the 
>>tcl gui pegs my cpu and never recovers seemingly at random.  its one of 
>>those nasty bugs we havnt been able to reproduce, but seems to like to 
>>crop up when we are setting up for a gig (*gulp*).  i'm hoping that its 
>>just a bug in tcl 8.3.  anyhow, if any of you are having any luck 
>>building pd, i could use some advice.   i've got visual studio 6 but 
>>when i've tried to build it it fails, probably some path issue.  plus i 
>>dont know if you build your own tcl/tk or if you find a binary of it 
>>somewhere.
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>not sure about your crash, try -d 3 as an option when invoking pd, it will print all teh stuff that is being communicated between pd & the gui. 
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>and vc6 is really old, you can dwonload vc2003 for free...from microsofts website somewehre, i think its faster than mingw, especially when compiling pd as a VST, but i generally use mingw, it sjust less hassle.:
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>http://whats-your.name/pd/build_pd_mingw32.html has the links
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>>thanks.
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