[PD] d_fat extension ???

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Andres Ferrari wrote:
> hello,
> 
> 
> is d_fat a new extension for externals in OSX?
> how works?

"d" is for darwin, "fat" is for universal binaries.
there are alternative extensions like "d_ppc" (guess what).

it's just an filename-extension, otherwise it is identical to the old 
extensions (but it is useful if you want to have several architecture 
binaries living side-by-side)


> 
> I have pd extended 0.40.3 on OSX intel 10.5.5, but no objects with this extension works in my system.
> 

what is the exact error message?
is it not able to find the files or can it not dlopen them? (use "-verbose")
iirc, hans has expressed his dislike of .d_fat in favour of .pd_darwin, 
but i don't think he would have actively removed support for .d_fat.

however, if this _is_ the problem, just renaming .d_fat to .pd_darwin 
should fix it (and bugger hans to remain compatible with pd-vanilla :-))
(i'm pretty sure that on 0.40 you already should have support for .d_fat)

if it finds the file but cannot dlopen, then the file is probably NOT a 
fat binary (despite it's name) and rather compiled for a wrong architecture.

fgmasdr
IOhannes