[PD] Trying to get GEM going on Pd Vanilla / Win10

oliver oliver at klingt.org
Wed Aug 3 17:40:25 CEST 2016


>
> i don't really know why, maybe some of the W32 experts can help out.

far from being an expert ;-)

but björn !

i would try this in your case:

(if you can afford it, uninstall any PD and GEM installations you have 
on your machine, copy personal patches somewhere else)


download a .zip package of pd vanilla (no installation process !) and 
unpack it on a different drive (not your W10 system drive, though). can 
also be an external harddisk

http://msp.ucsd.edu/Software/pd-0.47-1.msw.zip

also download GEM as a .zip

https://puredata.info/downloads/gem/releases/0.93.3/Gem-0.93.3-W32-i686.zip

and unpack it's contents manually into a folder inside your PD folder 
(normally you would use "extra")

when you start PD (usually with a batch file), you can try to load GEM 
with the preferences method or if necessary you have to point to the 
GEM.dll location from a batch file. i.e.:

[YOUR PATH TO PD]\bin\pd.exe -noprefs -noaudio -nomidi -lib [YOUR PATH 
TO PD]\extra\Gem-0.93.3\Gem

(at least that's my preferred method)


hope i'm not suggesting something too obvious, but that's the way it 
works alright on my machine (W7, 64bit). if it works on your machine as 
well, you might try putting your PD "portable" folder to a more 
convenient place on your system. but in general i prefer not to 
"install" PD, as i like to have full control over externals etc.

best

oliver




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