[PD] - need some assistance compiling an external for Windows

[Christof Ressi]

There is a subtle error in the Makefile, I just made a fix: https://github.com/jnonis/pd-plaits/pull/4. After that, I could compile it successfully with Msys2 in a MinGW64 Shell.

Christof



Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juli 2019 um 11:07 Uhr
Von: "Scott R. Looney" <scottrlooney at gmail.com>
An: pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
Betreff: Re: [PD] - need some assistance compiling an external for Windows

  

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 1:46 AM IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at[mailto:zmoelnig at iem.at]> wrote:On 7/12/19 9:15 AM, Scott R. Looney wrote:
> any tips on where to copy the folder so that the path is clearly given? i'm
> not 100% sure but i'm reasonably certain all my errors so far are path
> related.

i think this is all wrong.
you don't have to copy anything anywhere.
you shouldn't even think about doing that (where did you get the idea from?)

i *think* that you are just running "make" in the wrong directory.
you should run it in the "pd-plaits-master" directory (which contains
files like "plts~.cpp")¹
 
i am absolutely running make in the correct directory. i installed the whole msys2/mingw64 toolchain, i opened the shell for mingw64, and navigated to my copy of the repo, which i downloaded as a zip, uncompressed and moved into what i believed to be a convenient location under the msys64/home/(username) directory
once you have installed the proper toolchain (make, compiler,...) the
*only* thing you might have to adjust is the location of your
Pd-installation
 
Pd 64 bit is installed in its usual spot. nothing unusual there.
~~~
1. download pd-plaits and unzip it
2. open the MinGW32-shell (for building a 32bit external) resp the
MinGW64-shell (for building a 64bit external)
3. change into the pd-plaits directory
    $ cd pd-plaits-master
4. run make
    $ make
~~~

this will create a "plts~.dll" for you (the name's the same for both
32bit and 64bit externals; if you want both, you should rename the 64bit
external to "plts~.m_amd64")
 
yup i have done all of this (the 64 Bit route) and i'm still not getting anywhere. i understand i am a newbie to compiling but i really have tried to follow all the directions correctly. all i can guess is that somehow it's not looking for files in the active directory. the fact that Lucas couldn't compile it either is i think significant and speaks towards a non-standard compiling configuration on the repo. there's an Xcode project file so perhaps he tried pd-lib-builder and then gave up and switched to Xcode to compile it. i will say i ran all of this on my Mac using mingw64/gcc and 'make all' with the Makefile.pdlibbuilder  and it created a whole mess of object (.o) files but also created the .pd_darwin file correctly.
 
i think i'll take Lucas's advice and compile something that should work smoothly in order to verify that the method i've been following is sound.
 
best,
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