[PD] external libraries for Raspberry Pi - how to compile?

[Christof Ressi]

I'm 100% sure that this is just a matter of correctly loading iemlib, 
see my other post. Other people have been using iemlib on the RPi 
without problems.

Don't worry :-)

On 12.09.2021 03:36, Ingo wrote:
> I'm aware of the fact that pretty much anything can be replaced.
> For compatibility reasons I have to stick with Pd 0.49, though . . .
>
> My dilemma is that I have written over 13 years on this software. It's huge.
> Finding and replacing all objects that don't work anymore will take me at
> least several months doing nothing else.
> Without iemlib and iemgui working nothing even loads for starting up the
> software.
> This stuff had been written more than 10 years ago and I used whatever was
> working at this time.
>
> The very first errors I get are
>
> iemlib/splitfilename
> couldn't create
>
> mergefilename
> ... couldn't create
>
> Then loading stops already at less than 1% of the software being loaded.
> If I don't get any further I'm stuck. iemlib objects are all over the software
> with thousands of abstractions.
>
> When I install iemlib with "apt-get install pd-iemlib" it installs that
> patches and help files but all the .pd_linux files are missing.
> Same thing with Deken. So, none of the objects are created.
>
>
> The only way to get this running is by compiling the last non working
> libraries - mainly iemlib for now to get some loading at all.
> Then I can go ahead and replace or fix things.
>
> However, I have never compiled any libraries before - I don't even know
> whether iemlib can be compiled on the RPi at all.
> Should be possible, though since there is a version on Deken - it just doesn't
> work here.
>
> It's a brand-new operating system and I don't know which softwares to install
> for compiling and there are next to zero instructions on the iemlib source
> code.
>
> I cannot find any detailed and - more important - complete instructions for
> generally compiling libraries.
> All instructions assume that I already know how to compile libraries and that
> I have installed all needed software.
> But it's a brand new system with NOTHING is installed.
> And even worse I have no idea what to do if anything goes wrong or if nothing
> at all happens.
>
> If someone can point me to general instruction or a compiled version of iemlib
> for the RPi I'd be extremely grateful !
>
> Thanks
> Ingo
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] On Behalf Of
>> oliver at klingt.org
>> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2021 3:39 PM
>> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
>> Subject: Re: [PD] external libraries for Raspberry Pi - how to compile?
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 11. September 2021 15:12:04 MESZ schrieb Ingo
>> <ingo at miamiwave.com>:
>>> Thanks, IOhannes!
>>>
>>> Using apt-get took care of most except for iemgui, moocow and toxy.
>>>
>> What exact objects do you need from those ?
>>
>>>
>>> iemlib is as always incomplete!
>> That's strange. I recall it being complete the last time i used a Pi...
>>
>> I. e. some objects don?t create like e.g.
>>> [mergefilename], [stripfilename], [splitfilename], etc.
>>>
>> With recent PD versions you don't need an object like [mergefilename]
>> anymore. You can do basically anything with simple combinations of [symbol]
>> [pack] [list] and messages.
>>
>> Also have a look at the HCS library. That should cover your needs !
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>> --
>>
>> Gesendet von meiner Gurkn
>>
>>
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