[PD] How to installing externals??

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

With Pd-extended 0.41.4 and later on Mac OS X, putting libs, objects,  
and help patches into /Library/Pd  should just work.  It has  
everywhere I have tested it.  Please file a bug report with as much  
detail as possible if it is not working for you.

.hc

On Dec 26, 2009, at 9:21 PM, jurgen wrote:

> To me the point is not about file formats but rather simpler about  
> locations in OS X. If the .pd_darwin document is actually compiled  
> for the processor one uses it will work, no doubt. What I noticed  
> that does not work is the default folders mentioned in  the on-line  
> documentation, i.e. for global use in '/Library/Pd'. After I read  
> the instructions online I tried it again - when I delete the path in  
> the preferences and drop the libs in there they are _not_ available  
> any longer (red dotted boxes). Reversing the operation and they're  
> back. I noticed this under OS X.4 and under OS X.6 that I'm using now.
> My conclusion was that the user needs to do something else when the  
> default locations '/Library/Pd' are used that I am not aware of.
>
> Best
> Jurgen
>
> On Dec 27, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 26, 2009, at 3:36 AM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Use Pd-extended 0.41.4
>>>
>>> is fftease included with this version, or is this just a general  
>>> advice?
>>
>> get it here, as a libdir:
>> http://puredata.info/Members/hans/FFTeaseBuilds
>>
>>>> - .d_fat should be deprecated, use .pd_darwin for all arches on  
>>>> Mac OS X.
>>>
>>> or post a feature request to make Pd-extended acknowledge .d_fat,  
>>> in order to stay compatible with Pd-vanilla (or start a flamewar  
>>> on suffixes)
>>
>> Patches welcome.  But if you name externals for Mac OS X as  
>> *.pd_darwin, they will "just work" everywhere.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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