Being a pd neophyte, I also struggled with this enroute to getting other software to work with pd as a dependency.

I use MacPorts and also have portaudio/portmidi (and gcc suite) installed from there under Mac OSX 10.9. My general preference is to re-use those libraries rather than re/build (multiple versions) where possible.

What I ultimately had success with was: 1) Download the current version of source from sourceforge (pd-0.45-4.src.tar.gz) 2) Working from the ../pd-0.45-4/src/makefile.mac a) change deployment target from 10.3 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.9 b) set ARCH to build only x86_64 ARCH= -arch x86_64 c) replace portaudio/midi include directories with Macports include locations in CPPFLAGS CPPFLAGS = -DPD -DINSTALL_PREFIX="$(prefix)" -DHAVE_LIBDL -DMACOSX -DHAVE_UNISTD_H -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/local/include \ -DUSEAPI_PORTAUDIO -DPA_USE_COREAUDIO -DNEWBUFFER d) add Macports library location to LDFLAGS LDFLAGS = -Wl -framework CoreAudio -framework AudioUnit \ -framework AudioToolbox -framework Carbon -framework CoreMIDI $(ARCH) \ -L /opt/local/lib e) add portaudio/midi libraries to LIB LIB = -ldl -lm -lpthread -lportaudio -lportmidi f) remove all references to portaudio/midi sources from SYSRC SYSSRC += s_midi_pm.c s_audio_pa.c s_audio_paring.c

Some additional adjustments were required to "extras" that also get built ../extra/makefile.subdir a) build only x86_64 DARWINARCH= -arch x86_64

../extra/expr~/makefile (doesn't respect DARWINARCH) a) build only x86_64 MACOSXARCH= -arch x86_64

Disclaimer: the resultant binaries run on my system but I haven't tested them at all.

This is, of course, more of a kludge born of my naivete (and not recommended for general use). It would be nice if the standard configure scripts handled all the various permutations of options and system variations.

I look forward to seeing pd in Macports, maybe this helps (some)? -Ken