[PD] loading externals on Debian (was Re: Py/pyext not recognized...)

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Tue May 19 00:17:50 CEST 2020


> I get the same, and I don't yet understand why it doesn't show,
> although a midifile-help.pd file is there.
It's because [midifile] sets "midifile-help" as the help symbol instead 
of just "midifile", so Pd looks for "midifile-help-help.pd".

https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/externals/mrpeach/midifile/midifile.c

Apparantly, this has been fixed in Purr Data, btw.

Christof

On 18.05.2020 23:06, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Hi Jakob
>
> I'm not IOhannes, but I'll answer anyway.
>
> On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 22:22 +0200, Jakob Laue wrote:
>>   But when I add a "-lib mrpeach" in the
>> command line preferences, I always get "mrpeach: can't load library"
> Yes, because the mrpeach library doesn't contain a binary named
> mrpeach. In case of mrpeach, it is sufficient to just add the path.
> Preferably, you add the path with [declare -path mrpeach] in your
> patch, rather than in the Pd configuration. This makes your patch more
> portable.
>
>> on startup. But I can still create objects from it. I mean, I can use
>> the objects, but I don't get an overall init-message on startup,
>> which makes me think that someting is not set correctly.
> You don't see a message, because no external is loaded at start up
> (only the path is added). This is unlike the zexy library, which comes
> with a zexy binary and which prints something to the console when
> loaded. However, from what I understand, if a specific external prints
> a message at load time is purely optional. So that is not necessarily
> an indicator.
>
>>   Also, pd seems not to be able to find the help files for mrpeach-
>> objects. Right-clicking [midifile] and selecting "help" gives "sorry,
>> couldn't find help patch for "midifile-help.pd"" in the console.
>>
>> Do you have an idea what I could try to do?
> I get the same, and I don't yet understand why it doesn't show,
> although a midifile-help.pd file is there.
>
> Roman
>
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