[PD] readanysf for windows? (again)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 29, 2011, at 10:04 AM, august wrote:

>>>> Windows and Mac OS X both use the path of the executable for  
>>>> finding
>>>> other dlls, but not the path of each dll that is loaded (that could
>>>> be a lot of paths).  I think GNU/Linux might do the same, I don't
>>>> remember off the top of my head, but you so rarely encounter this  
>>>> on
>>>> GNU/Linux since you're almost always installing dlls in the path
>>>> (/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib).
>>>>
>>>> With the Mac version of readanysf~, the libraries are loaded from a
>>>> statically defined path (/Library/Pd/readanysf~).  So to make an
>>>> easily deployable readanysf~ for Windows, this issue will have to  
>>>> be
>>>> sorted out.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestion on how to do that Hans?  Is there a way to make it so
>>> that it tightly integrates with Pd-extended?
>>
>> That part of Windows linking I don't know, so the thing to do is to
>> find whether there is a way to add to the DLL load path, then make
>> readanysf~ do that.  That's probably a single function call.
>> Otherwise, people will need to install the DLLs into pd\bin or
>> \Windows\system32.
>>
>> .hc
>
> I guess what I am asking, is that now that it exists for all  
> platforms,
> what  in your opinion is the best strategy  for including it in
> pd-extended?  Or, is it already included?
>
> Are there any other externals that package .dll's and .so files in
> pd-extended?  Maybe we can look at this tomorrow in LA (if I make it).

It would be good to first get out some standalone builds and work out  
the kinks.  Then you'll have a way to make standalone builds on your  
own release schedule.  Once its in Pd-extended, your release schedule  
will be entirely tied to Pd-extended's release schedule.  From what  
I've seen, that only really works for very active devs or rarely  
changing libraries.  I can't take on any more maintenance, I'm already  
well overloaded with what I've got.

.hc

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