[PD] [SOLVED!] Re: Determine library dependency tree for a patch?

[William Huston]

Wow! Found a feature I didn't know existed.

Just to recap:
My problem is that I want to distrubute a complex patch,
but I do not know all of the dependencies.
So I want to build a list of such.


*In Pd version 0.46.7 (and perhaps others),*
Edit -> Preferences -> Path
Check "verbose".

Now when you load a patch, it shows you a ton of spew on the
Pd Console window, as it tries to find every object.

Now you get stuff like this:

tried
C:/Users/BH/Music/pd/BHPDToolkitNEW/BHPDtoolkit-master/BHPDtoolkit-master/patches/EvenOddSynth~.m_i386
and failed
tried
C:/Users/BH/Music/pd/BHPDToolkitNEW/BHPDtoolkit-master/BHPDtoolkit-master/abstractions/EvenOddSynth~.m_i386
and failed
tried C:/Program Files
(x86)/pd-0.43.4-extended/extra/freeverb~/EvenOddSynth~.m_i386 and failed
tried C:/Program Files
(x86)/pd-0.43.4-extended/extra/cyclone/EvenOddSynth~.m_i386 and failed
tried C:/Program Files
(x86)/pd-0.43.4-extended/extra/iemlib/EvenOddSynth~.m_i386 and failed
.*.. (snipped 951 lines!!)...*
tried C:/Users/BH/AppData/Roaming/Pd/output~/output~.dll and failed
tried C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Pd/output~/output~.dll and failed
tried C:/Program Files (x86)/Pure Data-0.46-7/extra/output~/output~.dll and
failed
tried
C:/Users/BH/Music/pd/BHPDToolkitNEW/BHPDtoolkit-master/BHPDtoolkit-master/patches/output~.pd
and failed
tried
C:/Users/BH/Music/pd/BHPDToolkitNEW/BHPDtoolkit-master/BHPDtoolkit-master/abstractions/output~.pd
and *succeeded*

.... but that's fine with me!!  A little shell scripting and I get a list
of all the objects used
and exactly the pathname to them. PERFECT!

Be prepared for a lot of output. My patch produced 3758 such lines!

So it may not produce a dependency *tree* like I originally asked for,
but I guess that's not what I really wanted.

Hope this helps someone else...
BH



On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:52 PM, William Huston <williamahuston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My idea is, I want to distribute a patch.
>
> But I build my patches with layers of abstractions.
>
> So I want to make a recursive map of the dependency tree,
> including any external libraries needed, so I can know
> what needs to be included when I distribute the patch.
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> I will probably do this with an external program,
> probably Perl (not within Pd).
>
> First it seems I really need to understand how to
> Pd does conflict resolution in case of name clashes.
>
> Next, it seems one must know the search path.
>
> This is a bit easier on Linux systems b/c it just
> requires parsing a flat file.
>
> On Windows it requires parsing the Registry
> (which I admit is still a big mystery for me).
>
> On My machine, I am finding the search path here:
>
>
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1970324843-3388967453-2642309065-1000\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pd\
>
> npath=12 means 12 directories to search, each being
> path1=(path1)
> path2=(path2)
> ...
> path12=(path12)
>
> I also find this repeated here:
>
>
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1970324843-3388967453-2642309065-1000_Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pd
>
> One question is, where does this strange string come from?
> Is this guaranteed to be the same on every Windows systems?
>
> S-1-5-21-1970324843-3388967453-2642309065-1000
> S-1-5-21-1970324843-3388967453-2642309065-1000_Classes
>
> Ugh. Anyway, just looking for some general guidance here.
>
> Thanks,
> BH
>
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> be happy and free from suffering :)
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>



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