After spending a day with the PD/PDP/GEM source code and Gentoo Linux on both an AMD Athlon and a G3 Powerbook, here's my results:
Gentoo's 0.37 does not compile if jack is installed. MSP's 0.37-test1 compiles and runs very good. Haven't tried running with jack yet but alsa drivers give a test tone.
PiDiP won't even unzip and unarchive. The downloaded file from: http://ydegoyon.free.fr/pidip-0.12.11.tar.gz is about 8K
PDP 0.12.2 from http://zwizwa.fartit.com/pd/pdp/ compiles fine
but...
Most objects in the example patches break their connections and do not function. Here's the list I made:
pdp_motion_phase pdp_gradient pdp_conv_sobel_edge pdp_blur pdp_cheby3o pdp_save_png_sequence pdp_diff pdp_agc pdp_contrast pdp_saturation pdp_motion_fade pdp_pps
creating error messages similar to this:
pdp_motion_fade 1 ... couldn't create pdp_contrast 0.16 ... couldn't create example15.pd 3 0 6 0 (pdp_v4l->text) connection failed example15.pd 6 0 7 0 (text->text) connection failed example15.pd 7 0 8 1 (text->pdp_mul) connection failed example15.pd 7 0 8 0 (text->pdp_mul) connection failed
On the Powerbook, PD 0.37 without jack compiles fine from Gentoo's package. The only GEM source that would compile is from CVS but it did and it runs great. Well, great for an old ATI rage 128 card with 8MB on it :)
And after all that. I'd like to introduce myself. I've been a Max/MSP user for about three years and developed patches with SoftVNS for video installations. When my Apple hardware started getting old even before the loan was paid off, I decided to try and move to Linux for multimedia. It's coming along slowly but surely. It's great to have these PD packages compile and run with only a day's work. I look forward to being a part of this great community.
-lee