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

[Björn Eriksson]

Hi, yes the main problem was the missing dll. Don't know why it is needed
or why it's not already included. Lucas was spotting this and might be able
to spread some light on this.

/Björn Eriksson

On 5 Aug 2016 2:04 am, "me.grimm" <megrimm at gmail.com> wrote:

> hello,
>
> just to clarify, other than the [declare] stuff, is the main problem
> placing "msvcr71.dll" in the Gem folder because it is missing? do we know
> the reason?
>
> i was just helping someone this morning on win10 / pd 0.47.1 / Gem and had
> the same problem... unable to load Gem. i ended up just telling them to
> install pd-x which worked fine (so far i assume).
>
> cheers
> m
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Björn Eriksson <miulew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for clarifications IOhannes!
>> I would really prefer to not declare anything with specific path
>> references like this one with the Gem-0.93.3 folder. I understand it will
>> induce problems if shared and if drives/sticks changes places, OS´s. The
>> reason the versioned folder got there was due to the suggestion from Oliver
>> to unzip all Gem.zip into the "extra" folder, which I did and got it there.
>> I also tried to set path preferences  (from menu - File-Preference-Path,
>> also File-Preference-Startup, but it seems that neither of them are
>> remembered after restart of Pd.
>>
>> Will try to rename the versioned folder to just Gem.... instead of
>> Gem-0.93.9  so to get rid of the dependecies. I hope it will work like that.
>>
>> Guess I was happy that Gem finally started to work on this machine I am
>> at, so didn´t see the fatalities of the versioned folder. (why is it anyway
>> included in the zip-file if it causes this instabilties?)
>>
>> All the best!
>> Björn Eriksson
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:25 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-08-04 03:23, Björn Eriksson wrote:
>>> > In the patch I do have to [declare -lib /Gem-0.93.3/Gem] or with direct
>>> > path where Gem is installed, on my external harddrive that is [declare
>>> -lib
>>> > G:/pd/extra/Gem-0.93.3/Gem].
>>>
>>> well, that sounds like a bad layout.
>>> the point of using [declare] is to create patches with dependency
>>> information that is platform independent and sharable.
>>>
>>> for instance it makes little sense to use [declare -lib
>>> D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem]: while it might work, the patch will
>>> break as soon as you give it away (or port it to another computer, that
>>> is not running windows ANDOR has a cd-drive occupying the "D:" letter
>>> rather than yoiur USB-stick ANDOR has a different filesystem layout
>>> ANDOR ...
>>>
>>> sp, if you put your externals into extra/, then you shouldn't use
>>> version-prefixes.
>>> if you do want to organise the directories the way you like, use the
>>> preferences to add additional paths.
>>>
>>> e.g. extracting Gem to D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem\ you could add
>>> "D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\" to your search-paths (in the
>>> Pd-preferences) and then use [declare -lib Gem] in your patch.
>>> then, if you want to migrate the patch to another machine, install Gem
>>> to /home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool/Gem/ and add
>>> "/home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool" to your Pd-preferences.
>>> then run your patch.
>>> without any modifications!
>>>
>>>
>>> fgasdmr
>>> IOhannes
>>>
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