[PD] how to use extensions .l_i386 and .l_ia64 for Linux externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Miller introduced those extensions in 0.42 or earlier, I forget when.  I made the filterview package by manually renaming the files.  It would be nice to have this automatically handled in the template Makefile for sure.  Having the extension as .pd_linux makes the packaging much easier because the packaging only has to handle one file extension, not all of them.

I guess don't want to add this to the template library unless it really is the only way.  Personally, I think we'd be better off if its easy to just build distribute a library for a given arch without having to include all of them in it.  I've been thinking again about a sort of 'apt-get' or 'yum' for Pd.  Now that we have a common library hammered out, it should be pretty straightforward to do.  So instead of fretting over all the file extensions, we could instead just figure out how to make package repos that Pd can download from in an automated way.

.hc

On Dec 7, 2012, at 6:50 PM, katja wrote:

> Hello, I'd like to use extensions .l_i386 and .l_ia64 for Linux Pd
> externals, like it is in Hans Christoph Steiner's [filterview]
> project. But how does that work? In the makefile accompanying the
> filterview project, Linux executable extensions are conventional
> .pd_linux.
> 
> I'm looking for ways to simplify build procedures and distribution of
> externals which are not in Pd-extended. At the moment, I let my
> makefiles find the bitness of a Linux system and automatically copy
> the executable to a directory bin/ or bin64/ according to bitness. But
> the problem is, a Linux user has to remove the file of wrong bitness
> so Pd can not try to load it. An executable (automatically) named with
> an extension according to bitness is a great idea. But do these
> extensions also work for Pd-E versions older than 0.43, and for
> vanilla Pd?
> 
> Thanks,
> Katja
> 
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