[PD] Errors building PD from source

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Tue Jul 7 17:29:52 CEST 2009


You might need to install a Tcl/Tk Wish Shell.app in order to run it  
from the command line.  You can use the built-in Wish, but its quite  
old.  Here's how in Terminal:

cd /Applications
ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Resources/Wish\  
Shell.app Wish.app

.hc

On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Ian Andrews wrote:

>
> On 02/07/2009, at 7:19 PM, Luke Iannini wrote:
>
> Thanks Luke. In fact this is what I tried first of all. On MacOSX  
> 10.5.5 (intel) with Pd-0.40.3-extended when launched from command  
> line wish shell quits. On 10.4.11 (power PC) with Pd-0.40.3-extended  
> it doesn't manage to find wish. This led me to assume that building  
> from source might fix these issues.
> If I can't overcome these difficulties I think the best course of  
> action is , as you suggest, to use the "startup flags" box, and  
> launch the patch from "login items" in the MacOSX system prefs,
>
> best,
>
> ian
>>>
>> (and, by the way, you can still run Pd from a shell script by (if Pd
>> is Pd-extended.app) running
>> "/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd" -  
>> everything
>> else will work as usual.  Finally, you can also, I think, add items  
>> to
>> the "startup flags:" box in "Preferences>Startup..." or use a ~/.pdrc
>> file (which is just the flags you want to pass, one flag per line))
>>
>> Best
>> Luke
>>
>>>
>>> I'm fairly new to pd but I have been building from source on  
>>> Macosx and
>>> linux for a few years. Usually I can work it out. This time I'm  
>>> really
>>> stuck.
>>>
>>> ian
>>>
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