[PD] Determine library dependency tree for a patch?

[Frank Barknecht]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:02:17PM -0400, William Huston wrote:
> Yes, my plan is to include whatever abstractions in my own libraries.
> But I do not know what those dependencies are!!
> That is the problem.
> 
> My goal is to have a script or program which can
> a) examine an arbitrary patch, (example: "BillsPatch.pd") and
> b) examine my Pd runtime environment
> 
> ... and build a dependency tree. Something like this:

Maybe for starters you can start with Pd itself in a shell-like script and examine its output? 
With "-verbose" you get explicit error lines for every object missed and
found like this:

$ pd -stderr -noprefs -verbose somepatch.pd
[...]
tried /tmp/somepatch.pd and succeeded
tried /tmp/a/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
tried /tmp/b/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
tried /tmp/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/fbar/pd-externals/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/in-b.l_ia64 and failed
[...]
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/in-b/in-b.pd_linux and failed
tried /tmp/a/in-b.pd and failed
tried /tmp/b/in-b.pd and succeeded

Look for all "tried ... and succeeded" lines and extract the path or file.

When testing if you have everything copyied, use "-noprefs" as well to 
ignore your own preferences.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__