[PD] building Pd-extended on 64 bit Debian system

[John Harrison]

For those of us working outside the realm of Pd vanilla, I am a big 
supporter of Pd-extended because it gets us using the same versions of 
the same sets of modules. This combined with its binary distributions 
gets us all able to focus more on our work and less on silly 
configuration issues with the tools. After pd-extended completely saved 
me on a project a few weeks ago (big time crunch --- didn't have time to 
be troubleshooting building pidip, pdp, gem2pdp, etc.) I am now a 
complete convert to the concept of pd-extended binaries.

Stupidly I set up my daily work/laptop machine up as 64 bit ubuntu Hardy 
instead of 32 bit. Pd-extended binaries only seem to be 32 bit. At this 
point, the idea of reinstalling the OS doesn't give me joy. At the same 
time I really want to join the pd-extended community --- and I feel 
strongly enough about this that I am willing to reinstall my OS if that 
is what it will take.

For now I've done my best trying to build Pd-extended on my 64 bit 
machine. It seems to be working for the most part but I am sure I did 
some stupid things. I made a wiki page about what I did, hoping this 
might start us in the process of 1) cleaning up a nice set of docs so 
others might build on 64 bit OS without wasting too much time 2) 
streamlining the code so 64 bit compilation is more automatic 3) 
offering 64 bit binaries. I am glad to help with any/all of these.

Feel free to edit the wiki page and/or comment directly to me or to the 
list. I want to learn the "right" way to have done this. Besides my 
documentation, I have included the resulting .deb:
http://cratel.wichita.edu/cratel/cratel_Pd_extended_on_bit_64_Debian-based_OS

-John

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John Harrison
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison