[PD] 0.392 Loading Libraries, WIN XP

[Roman Haefeli]

hi david

may you know it already, but i tell you nevertheless. there are two way to 
tell pd which pathes to use and wich libraries to load and so on. if you set 
your pathes using the userinterface (File -> Path or File -> Startup), pd 
will save these settings in the registry. the comfort (or the crux) of this 
story is, that these entries will stay there if you install another version 
of pd, so you can use the same settings in the freshly installed version.
the other - the oldschool - way is to write startup-file. it is a normal 
textfile with the ending .bat (on windows). you can call it 'pd.bat' for 
example and place it in the pd/bin-folder. these file could look like that:

pd -path c:/pd/extra -path c:/pd/your/abstraction/folder -lib zexy -lib 
c:/whole/path/toyour/lib

personally i like more the way with the bat-file, because it provides more 
flexibility. you can use more than one file for different settings (no libs, 
all libs, all libs+gem etc.).
if you decide to write your own .bat-file, i recommend to delete all 
settings in the registry in order to not mix up these two (as miller 
mentioned).
a detailed descripton of how to write your own .bat-file will you find in: 
pd/doc/1.manual/x3.htm#4 (section 3.6 'command line arguments')
i hope i could help you.

roman



"David Powers" <cyborgk at nocturnalnoize.com>¨wrote:

> Bad news!!! :(
>
> Now, none of the libraries load, except GEM, xsample, and pmpd,  into 
> EITHER version of PD (384, 392), even though they are in different places 
> in my Program Files folder. I did not change 0.38.4, but somehow it has 
> picked up the problem from 0.39.2. I tried to reinstall 0.38.4 and it 
> didn't make any difference either.
>
> In 0.38.4, when I open the "Paths", the paths all look correct, as I 
> didn't change them. HOWEVER, when I try to open the "Startup" dialogue, 
> NOTHING HAPPENS. So, obviously there is some problem here - is there some 
> kind of external file that I could fix with a text editor???
>
> I'm very frustrated. Especially because, we are starting Chicago PD 
> meetings and I could probably make some cool stuff to share and bring some 
> more people into using PD, but not if I can't get it to work!!!
>
> ~David
>
> PS. Starting output as follows:
>
> GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia
> GEM: ver: 0.90
> GEM: compiled: Aug  3 2004
> GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig
> GEM: Authors :    Mark Danks (original version on irix/windows)
> GEM:         Chris Clepper (macOS-X)
> GEM:         Daniel Heckenberg (windows)
> GEM:         James Tittle (macOS-X)
> GEM:         IOhannes m zmoelnig (linux/windows)
> C:/Program Files/pd/extra/cyclone: can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/zexy": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/cxc": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/ext13": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/iemabs": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/iemmatrix": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/markex": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/maxlib": can't load library
> "C:/Program Files/pd/extra/memento": can't load library
> pdp: can't load library
> pidip: can't load library
>
>     pmpd = Physical Modeling for Pure Data
>     version 0.06
>     compiled Jan 16 2006
>     Contact : cyrille.henry at la-kitchen.fr
>
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> xsample objects, version 0.3.1
>
>  xrecord~, xplay~, xgroove~  (C)2001-2005 Thomas 
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