Hallo, Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote:
Hi Derek,
Syncgrain~ must be the wierdest "external" to get running! There really aren't any "installation" or usage instructions that come with it, but
There is a README and a help-patch, but admittedly they don't cover compiling. Compiling actually just involved editing config-pd-linux.txt and doing "make".
from searching the archives I can see that it "just works [tm]" if you have Flext installed with SndObj support.
hmm, that wasn't stated by me, since SndObj support is "just there [tm]" but not really well tested.
Generally it "just works [tm]". ;) Although syncgrain~ AFAIK is the only external using it in CVS, I also have some other externals on my disk which use Flext-SndObj and they are pretty straightforward.
Well, I have done exactly that, with pd-0.38-0test10 as the base, and the [syncgrain~] object still fails to make.
I figured it was a problem finding Flext, so I added "/usr/local/lib/pd/flext" to my /etc/ld.so.conf and ran "ldconfig" to no avail.
this is only relevant for externals that are linked dynamically, however you can also link it statically.
The makefile of syncgrain~ links statically with flext.a, so dealing with ld.so.conf is not necessary if you just want to run syncgrain~. However what about moving libflext.so etc. so /usr/lib? I don't see a real problem with doing this, it would solve some installation hassles and libpdp does the same. AFAIK there is no other libflext already in /usr/lib on common Linux systems.
If externals like to use the new build system they have to have some package information, that can range from simple for externals with no external dependencies to quite complex. In the simplest case it breaks down to just having a "package.txt" file with the following content: NAME=name of external SRCS=source code files Please see build.txt and buildsys/readme.txt in the flext folder for more info.
I didn't yet find the time to adapt my externals to the new flext build system, but it's definitely on my TODO list.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__