On May 3, 2022, at 8:57 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

I often find things are a bit easier on Linux, but that's what I
got
accustomed to. In the case of the fluidsynth~ external, using the
dynamic libraries from my distro (Ubuntu 22.04) doesn't seem
practical,
as libfluidsynth.so.3 links against virtually half the system.
After
executing the localdep script, I end up with 53 *.so files. Most of
them aren't actually used when libfluidsynth is used for the pd
external. Creating a more stripped down build of libfluidsynth
probably
would make sense here.

Cool, but how? :)?

By building fluidsynth from source with the minimal set of configure
flags required for the pd external.