[PD] How to deal with externals for both 64 and 32-bit Pd

[Lucas Cordiviola]

there is a name convention to support both float types in the same path.

     https://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/x4.htm#s1.2.1

If you are using lib-pd-builder see:

https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder/blob/master/tips-tricks.md#building-double-precision-externals


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On 06/12/2023 05:12, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-12-06 at 09:43 +0200, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
>> The question now is how to have both versions run happily side by
>> side?
>> On the 64-bit version I did find zexy (but some other libraries I
>> searched for, including my own, neuralnet, were not available - not a
>> surprise for my own, I haven't compiled it for the 64-bit version),
>> but
>> installing it through deken, breaks compatibility with the 32-bit
>> version (I guess it overrides it).
> You could configure different install and search paths for single- and
> double-precision versions of Pd. I don't know if they share the config
> file. If they do, you would have to adjust the config whenever you
> switch between them.
>
>>   So when I open the 32-bit version,
>> zexy is no longer available. If I install it through deken from the
>> 32-bit Pd, then it's not available for the 64-bit Pd.
>>
>> Another question is, how to compile externals for 64-bit Pd? I would
>> like to offer [neuralnet] for this version too.
> Just compile it against the m_pd.h of the double-precision edition of
> Pd. That's not a very qualified statement, though. I haven't tried it
> myself yet. And from what I read about the topic, not all sources are
> compatible with Pd64 right away.
>
> Roman
>