[PD] pd on shared linux server

[Andres Cabrera]

Hi,
I just built pd from cvs for the first time today, and gladly found it
was very straight forward (congratulations developers!). What you are
missing is not Xfree86, but tcl (and probably tk). I use planet ccrma so
it as very easy to get tcl-devel and tk-devel.
Since you don't have root password, I'm not sure if things will work,
and will surely be a bit more complicated. You will probably have to
instruct pd's configure where to find the tcl/tk installation.
You will also need at least alsa support if you're doing audio
streaming, so check if that's installed. (I think it probably is since
it's a recent kernel)
You can find tcl/tk here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894

Good luck,
Andrés


 
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 16:37, cera wrote:
> hi all,
> i'm new to this list (and pd) so i thought i'd introduce myself &throw
> out some general (and more specific) questions i've got...
> i've been working with max/msp for the past few years, and i've
> alwaysbeen curious to check out pd, but haven't had the occasion (or
> elsei'm just lazy ;)
> basically what has motivated me to take the plunge is an interest
> increating a series of patches that will stream audio from a
> linuxserver based on user interactivity on a website
> like i said i'm new to this game, so any hints you all can give
> mewould be great
> i'm thinking basically i'd use the xml socket library in flash withosc
> as the glue between flash & pd
> i've downloaded pd for os x & started going through the
> documentation,so hopefully i'll be up & running fairly quickly on that
> end of things
> in the meantime i'm trying to figure out how to get some sort of
> atesting environment up on the server as well
> i got this far in the pd installation process & hit a wall:
> 
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for pid_t... yes
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking fcntl.h usability... yes
> checking fcntl.h presence... yes
> checking for fcntl.h... yes
> checking limits.h usability... yes
> checking limits.h presence... yes
> checking for limits.h... yes
> checking malloc.h usability... yes
> checking malloc.h presence... yes
> checking for malloc.h... yes
> checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
> checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
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> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking bstring.h usability... no
> checking bstring.h presence... no
> checking for bstring.h... no
> checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
> checking return type of signal handlers... void
> checking for vprintf... yes
> checking for _doprnt... no
> checking for gettimeofday... yes
> checking for select... yes
> checking for socket... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> checking for sin in -lffm... no
> checking for sin in -lm... yes
> checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
> checking for X... no
> checking for XCreateWindow in -lX11... no
> no X11 found
> checking tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl.h presence... no
> checking for tcl.h... no
> checking tcl8.7/tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl8.7/tcl.h presence... no
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> checking tcl8.6/tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl8.6/tcl.h presence... no
> checking for tcl8.6/tcl.h... no
> checking tcl8.5/tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl8.5/tcl.h presence... no
> checking for tcl8.5/tcl.h... no
> checking tcl8.4/tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl8.4/tcl.h presence... no
> checking for tcl8.4/tcl.h... no
> checking tcl8.3/tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl8.3/tcl.h presence... no
> checking for tcl8.3/tcl.h... no
> checking tcl8.2/tcl.h usability... no
> checking tcl8.2/tcl.h presence... no
> checking for tcl8.2/tcl.h... no
> no tcl header found
> 
> so, from what i can tell, it looks like i need to install x86
> asmentioned in the pd documentation
> unfortunately i'm using a virtual private server, so i don't have root
> 
> the Xinstall.sh file told me:
> Checking which OS you're running...
> uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.9-e.40', architecture 'i686'.
> libc version is '6.2.4' (6.2).
> 
> Binary distribution name is 'Linux-ix86-glibc22'
> 
> so i downloaded everything i needed according to the info
> athttp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/Install
> then when i ran it again, i got:
> sh: ./Xinstall.sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> 
> i then tried chmod'ing & chown'ing everything to my account,but keep
> getting the same error message
> so i'm not sure where that leaves me...
> 
> i see that there are compiled versions of pd for mac, irix &
> windows...
> but is there one for linux anywhere?
> 
> i'm also curious as how i would connect the audio output from a
> pdpatch to a streaming mechanism
> and whether this is something that is even feasible in a
> sharedenvironment, 
> or if i would need to have a dedicated machine co-located somewhere
> any help or guidance anyone out there could give me would be great...
> 
> thanks,
> -mark