Compiling externals was [Re: [PD] ordered numbers]

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

day 5 wrote:
> 
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Jamie Bullock wrote:
> 
>> Very common (on unixes):
>>
>> ./configure       (builds the correct Makefile for your system)
>> make              (runs the relevant build commands in the Makefile)
>> make install      (places the compiled files in the correct directories;
>>             usually you must be root to do this)
> 
> 
> Um. What if there is no configure and worse, no configure.ac (which you
> use autoconf with ??)

then look out for configure.in.
else, you obviously cannot use the autotools.

> 
>> There is no generic way to compile source code.
> 
> 
> For *.pd_darwin ??

what does this question mean ?
in which respect is the compilation process into pd_darwin different
from the one i use to build dll's ???

> tutorials to recently the iemmatrix.pd_darwin from CVS. Quite generic
> indeed.

what is wrong with the autoconf-build in iemmatrix ? i use it for
compiling binaries for w32, linux and osX and it works fine.

i use autoconf for compiling both zexy and Gem under osX and linux too.


as for not knowing how to build a special external, i would strongly
suggest reading files like README.txt, README.build, INSTALL.txt and so on.
most of the times, you can find a lot of valuable information in there.

mfg.asd.r
IOhannes