[PD] import and search paths - 0.43 on debian
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Thu Feb 16 16:03:29 CET 2012
On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 14/02/12 18:49, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> I know this has probably often been debated but...
>>>
>>> I can't seem to understand the logic for which [import] fails with an error e.g.:
>>>
>>> [import]: ERROR: can't load library in monlib
>>>
>>> and doesn't for others.
>>>
>>> This is on debian with libraries installed from respective packages, and are all in /usr/lib/pd/extra
>>>
>>> I may be missing something about the behaviour of [import] but the apparently herratic behaviour makes understanding this hard.
>>>
>>> Of course all the libs could be imported by prefixing them such as [osc/packOSC] but then opening the help patch won't find [udpsend] which should then be [iemnet/udpsend] etc. having a single [import iemnet osc] would make much more sense. If it worked.
>> You can include all the libraries you want in a single import statement, that's the preferred way to do it, i.e. [import moonlib motex Gem osc]
>>
>> Now that you've fixed the typo, what's the error?
>
>
> As I said this seems to be erratic - at least to me for the moment - so for moonlib specifically e.g.
>
> [import]: ERROR: can't load library in moonlib
>
> Same goes e.g. for osc.
>
> On the other hand if I try to import Gem [import Gem] it works.
>
> One interesting thing i "discovered" for the errors mentioned above is that if I also import (before) libdir they work. Maybe this is the requirement I wasn't understanding about the import process?
>
> [import libdir moonlib osc]
>
> gives:
> libdir loader 1.9
> compiled on Jul 21 2011 at 03:17:08
> compiled against Pd version 0.43.0.
> [import] loaded library: libdir
> [import] loaded library: moonlib
> [import] loaded library: osc
>
> Ciao
> Lorenzo.
> PS: BTW I wouldn't have started a thread based on a single error with a typo although I can see it might have been misleading ;)
Sounds like you are using 0.42 preferences with 0.43. Delete or move your ~/.pdextended file and [import moonlib] should work fine.
.hc
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