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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

While you may think it was stupid to install 64-bit now, I am very  
glad you did.  That's how we are going to get the 64-bit builds  
working well, by people installing 64-bit, using it, reporting bugs,  
and fixing them.  I think that with pd 0.41, we are very close to  
getting the whole pd-extended collection to be 64-bit compatible.

Very nice web page too, any interest in maintaining the info in  
http://puredata.info/docs/developer ?  They are all MoinMoin already,  
so the syntax is the same.

.hc

On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:33 PM, John Harrison wrote:

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