That could work. We can then put a mention in INSTALL.txt.

INSTALL.txt the file was already there so I used that to expand the build overview and intro for people who haven't used a Unix-style build system before. I didn't think about the html docs. I did put a lot of the dirty details in the platform-specific readme, aka mac/README.txt & msw/README.txt but we could probably move all or some of those things to html, if it makes sense to do so.

On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:55 PM, Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:

I think info for developers will want to be a much larger thing than a single
readme-type file - perhaps it should go in doc/1.manual?

cheers
M

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 10:53:20PM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Christof,

Let's put this in a new DEVELOPER.txt file in the Pd root. I think it could be a good companion to the INSTALL.txt along with other lower-level details...

On Jun 5, 2020, at 7:49 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Hi,

apart from the "generic" library extensions (".pd_darwin", ".pd_linux", 
".so" and ".dll"), Pd also supports platform specific extensions, with a 
OS prefix and the CPU architecture:

Prefixes:

"m_" -> Windows

"d_" -> macOS

"l_" -> Linux

"o_" -> OpenBSD

Architectures:

"amd64" -> Intel 64-bit

"i386" -> Intel 32-bit

"arm" -> Arm 32-bit

"arm64" -> Arm 64-bit

"ppc" -> PowerPC

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In your case, you can ship two different binaries next to each other: 
".d_i386" and ".d_amd64".

Finally, macOS also supports fat binaries, where several architectures 
are contained within a single binary. These have the extension ".d_fat".

Christof

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