[PD] pd-extended-0.42.5: problems with gridflow + gem & pdp

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Antonio Bonifacio wrote:

> I've just installed Pd-extended 0.42.5 from the Ubuntu Lucid repo at 
> http://apt.puredata.info/releases, and I've successfully built gridflow 
> 9.11. However I have a couple of problems: gridflow objects that bridge 
> with gem & pdp like #to_pix or #to_pdp do not work.
> Maybe because there are no gem or pdp includes in the pd-extended 
> package?

In the startup list, "gridflow" needs to be listed after "gem" and after 
"pdp" so that those components work. Also make sure that your build of GF 
does include GEM support. PDP support is a mandatory component in the 
build, and starting with 9.12, GEM support also is. But they become 
mandatory at build time for two reasons : they become optional at run 
time, and they include their own copies of the headers (of GEM, PDP, and 
now, the headers of Pd too). This means that you can build a full GF build 
without even having Pd installed at all, and the build will still be able 
to run with Pd, GEM and PDP.

> The second problem is related to the missing support for libv4l2 in the 
> lucid package... In fact I have to use 
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so pdextended to make my webcam 
> work with pd-extended... Could you provide a build with v4l2 support?

BTW, did you get libv4l1 support in your GF build ? (there's currently no 
v4l2 API support at this point in GF though... it only understands v4l2 
through the v4l1 interface and only if you have libv4l1 support enabled)

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