[PD] Getting the best out of the rewrite

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

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Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>> 1) if hexloader is buggy/incomplete what will it take to fix it?

mostly somebody who is willing to do the work.
i have written and rewritten it several times, and frankly i don't care
about it that much. i don't use it ever (since i use zexy.l_i386 rather
than single-object externals).
the problem with abstraction loading is to my knowledge non-fixable
without touching Pd-code.

>> 2) if you agree with me that in the interim pd-extended is effectively
>> broken what can be done to circumvent this problem to make it usable
>> until hexloader is fixed?
> 
> I guess I owe everyone an apology. I've recompiled the external and now
> it for some reason works (perhaps I had a stale one lying around from a
> previous 0.41.4 version running against 0.42.5? If so, how could this
> have such an effect?)

i stale version of what? [>~] or hexloader?

if it was hexloader, than the reason might be, that 0.42.5 has an
almost-public API for loaders, whereas older version don't.
if [hexloader] finds 0.42.5 at compile time, it will use this API, hence
the workingness,

>
> Object still work ok, but is load_object: Symbol not found error
> something to worry about? Is this perhaps because zexy has been compiled
> potentially against a wrong version? 

no; it's a verbose message of hexloader, which tries several
setup-routines (e.g. <name>_setup() and setup_<name>() and
<setup_mangledname>() and whatelse), and informs you if it failed.

i guess the message should show up only in verbose mode.

> Finally, how could I recompile it
> by hand to produce individual objects rather than a single library?

hexloader is only a single object.
zexy can be configured with "--disable-library" to built as individual
objects.


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IOhannes
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