[PD] How to build a Pd project like an application ?

[Federico Camara Halac]

Also, might be useful to link to this thread. There was some mention of a
build feature in extended, and a more simple way of approaching this via a
shell script.

https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-07/119741.html

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
wrote:

> > Often students have no administrator rights on computers, are note able
> to install softwares.
>
> you don't have to 'install' Pd, just put it somewhere and launch it.
>
> I'd suggest, just pack everything (Pd distribution + main patch +
> abstractions + externals) in a directory and write a startup script (and a
> .pdsettings file, if you use Pd 0.48).
> everything except the script, readme and license should probably be in
> subdirectories. then zip the whole thing and it's ready for distribution.
> user will just have to unzip and launch the script. of course you'd need to
> make different bundles for each OS you want to support.
>
> Christof
>
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 14. September 2017 um 13:25 Uhr
> *Von:* "Jérôme Abel" <abel.jerome at free.fr>
> *An:* pd-list at lists.iem.at
> *Betreff:* [PD] How to build a Pd project like an application ?
>
> Hi,
>
> I know that Pd is not standalone
> <https://puredata.info/docs/faq/standalone>, but I wonder how to build an
> entire Pd project with libraries, externals, helps, abstractions, settings,
> tclplugins into an executable (not an installer).
>
> Three goals are persistents :
>
>    - Use Pd in schools or in workshops. Often students have no
>    administrator rights on computers, are note able to install softwares. And
>    we loose them when we have to download Pd + 10 needed libraries + our
>    project.
>    - Share big project
>    - Do not interfere with other pd installations (like settings file, or
>    objects location).
>
> Some ways how big project work around these issues :
>
>    - Egregore, which have to manage different strategies for O.S. A
>    script launches Pd executable + libraries. Which seems the easiest way.
>    - Purr Data, a modern approach, but a fork
>    - CEAMMC Pd : https://github.com/uliss/pure-data, which seems a
>    in-between solution
>
> We could discuss about these solutions.
>
> Is there a simple tutorial about building pd for each platform containing
> our folders, libraries, settings, tcl interface, and compress it as a
> folder for instance ? Is it possible to build from just one computer
> (x-compilation) ? Sub-purpose would be to maintain all project in order to
> be up to date : download or update Pd and all needed libraries for each
> platform (Deken seems not allowing that now)
>
> Thanks for any tip.
>
> Sharing knowledges : I'm not "compilation-friendly", if some people are
> interested to go deeper inside Pd, we could organize like an online
> learning session (master class) with a Pd Yoda Master ? We could document
> this.
>
> +
>
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