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

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

Sorry for the second question, now read the pd-lib-builder README. It 
states that 64-bit externals will indeed get a different name.

On 12/6/23 10:21, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
> there is a name convention to support both float types in the same path.
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>     https://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/x4.htm#s1.2.1
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> If you are using lib-pd-builder see:
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> 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.
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>>>   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
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