That has nothing to do with libpd as those design choices were made far before libpd existed.

In practice, yes those externals work. I know this because I’ve actually used soundfile_info with libpd, but that was with the external statically compiled into the project. I haven’t tried dynamically loaded.

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On Apr 28, 2015, at 6:00 AM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Is it something to do with libPd compatibility? Will such externals work in libPd e.g. if a patch has “iemlib/soundfile_info” and soundfile_info is compiled into the Pd binary, is this a measure to ensure that libPd finds the object?