[PD] plugin~ external

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:21 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

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> On 06/10/2010 04:05 AM, Kim Cascone wrote:
>> yeah that is what was happening
>> it keeps loading the old one here instead of seeing the new one in my
>> pd-externals dir:
>
> allright.
> Pd-extended often makes it a bit difficult to isolate things like  
> that.
>
> this is how i do it (and it's probably a good idea :-)
>
> - - go to plugin-sources
> - - compile with scons
> - - run Pd with the "-noprefs" flag
> - - open your plugin~-testpatch
>
> so the trick is to use "-noprefs", which will make Pd(X) ignore the
> .pdsettings/.pdrc, so no libraries are loaded by default nor any paths
> are added but the "standard" ones ("extra/")
>
>>
>>
>> so I replaced the old plugin~ in /flatspace/ with todays build
>> deleted the old paths to the /plugin~ dir I created
>>
>> launched PdX and console message was:
>> tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/flatspace/plugin~.pd_linux and succeeded
>>
>> I opened my test patch: 'plugin~June9.pd'
>>
>> tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/flatspace/plugin~.pd_linux and succeeded
>> verbose( 1):plugin~: found plugin "amp" in library
>> "/usr/lib/ladspa/amp_1181.so"
>> verbose( 1):plugin~: constructed plugin "Simple amplifier"  
>> successfully
>> verbose( 1):plugin~: plugin ports: audio 1/1 ctrl 1/0
>> verbose( 1):plugin~: plugin active
>> plugin~: "Simple amplifier"
>>
>
> good.
>
>>
>> then I sent down both [listplugins] and [info]
>> but they still make PdX crash
>
> bad.
>
> when does it crash?
> when sending "listplugins" or when sending "info", or still with both?
>
>
>>
>> I launched pd -stderr
>
> unfortunately this gives loads of uninteresting info, and no  
> interesting
> info.
>
> better would be:
> $ cd path/to/plugin~
> $ pd -noprefs -stderr -verbose -verbose plugin~-June08.pd
>
>
> and see if something more interesting comes out of it.
>
> also;
> would it be possible to run it within gdb?
>
> and/or send me the test-patch and your /usr/lib/ladspa/amp_1181.so

I did get random crashes on Mac OS X, but now I can 't reproduce  
them.  Its working for me.  I improved the help file in the process of  
testing.

.hc

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