[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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