[off-list] Re: [PD] newbie problem compiling dssi~

[Libero Mureddu]

On 3/31/06, Jamie Bullock <jamie at postlude.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:59:20 +0300
> "Libero Mureddu" <libero.mureddu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > sending the 'info' message, doesn't produce anything, not even an
> > error message in the pd window. The 'listplugins' message crashes pd,
> > and also opening your patch causes the crash,
> None of these things should make PD crash, and I can't reproduce the problem. On my machines if you try to load a non-existant plugin the PD console just reports that it couldn't load the plugin.
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> Could you send me your dssi~.pd_darwin file off list.

Yes.

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> > I think because I don't
> > have hexter installed, so I'm trying to compile dssi (not dssi~!) and
> > hexter but I have some problems compiling them.
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> The substance of DSSI is really just a header file. The other things that get installed when you install the package are things like jack-dssi-host (another host), and some example plugins. All you need for dssi~ is dssi.h.
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Yes, this is clear. My point is that it seems that if the plugin
doesn't exists, pd crashes.
If I write in an object box 'dssi~ ciao', pd quits.

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> > But the good news are that dssi~ loads the plugins correctly it seems,
> > at least it creates different inlets according to different plugins.
> And do you get audio? Please find attached a very simple test patch. It only requires filter.so and sine.so.

I modified the patch with a text editor in order to give the right
path to the sine.so, and canceled the line containing 'dssi~ lpf'
otherwise, crash! But yes, I get a nice and warm sinusoid!

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> If you still have problems loading the patch, I suggest you temporarily remove all other libaries from the path, as it is possible that a particular plugin is crashing dssi~ when it searches through your path.

I did, but I still cannot open your patch.
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> >I
> > read from another email that it is not necessary to install ladspa SDK
> > in order to have listplugins working, but I couldn't understand if I
> > have to install jutils, or in which way jutils are related with dssi~.
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> Just like the DSSI 'package', the LADSPA SDK is not a real dependency. Only ladspa.h is required. I should probably modify the README so this is a bit clearer. You don't need to install 'jutils'; a modified version is already provided with the dssi~ sources, and it is compiled into dssi~.pd_darwin as part of the 'make' process. It contains the functions for searching for and loading plugins.

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Anyway I want to compile by myself
the ladspa plugins, in order to understand better why some of them
don't work with ardour. But of course with pd I've tried only those
that I remember were working with ardour.

BTW, 'info' message works! I 'just' forgot to connect the print object... sorry!

Libero
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