Hey IOhannes, sorry for stumpling in here. If it is not okay, I will open a new thread. I have a question regarding your statement '[declare -path XY]'. I have trouble loading the mrpeach-library on startup and mrpeach comes with multiple binaries (at least here on my mac, downloaded from deken). I tried "-path /path/To/MrPeach" in the command line preferences and I also specified the path to mrpeach in the search path preferences. When I have both of the latter, in a new patch I can create e.g. [midifile] and it works. But when I add a "-lib mrpeach" in the command line preferences, I always get "mrpeach: can't load library" on startup. But I can still create objects from it. I mean, I can use the objects, but I don't get an overall init-message on startup, which makes me think that someting is not set correctly. Also, pd seems not to be able to find the help files for mrpeach-objects. Right-clicking [midifile] and selecting "help" gives "sorry, couldn't find help patch for "midifile-help.pd"" in the console.
Do you have an idea what I could try to do? Thank you, Jakob
PS. Your user name is the best! :-D
Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Mai 2020 um 12:47 Uhr Von: "IOhannes m zmölnig" zmoelnig@iem.at An: pd-list@lists.iem.at Betreff: [PD] loading externals on Debian (was Re: Py/pyext not recognized...) On 5/12/20 11:16 AM, Raphael Raccuia wrote:
well, thank you anyway... I tried matPlotLib with Python 2.7, my script doesn't work, at least as it is. So maybe it's easier to wait pd-py for Python3. If you have any idea how to bind Pd to that script, it's welcome. I'll try something simple with [shell].
By the way, I'm confused on the way to load externals, since there are not loaded after Ubuntu packages install
that's by design. installing a program doesn't automatically run it. installing an external doesn't automatically load it.
: I tried with [declare], but often it doesn't find libs, probably a path issue, since PD never searches in the right directory (seen with path verbose). It seems the path is relative to the patch, or to PD (-std...). For example with _ggee_, I had to add the absolute path in the settings. Are deb packages supposed to configure that?
no. they are supposed to just work (and generally do).
there are two issues why it doesn't work for you:
- some libraries come with a single-binary that contains multiple
objects (e.g. zexy), other libraries put one binary for each object into a directory (e.g. bsaylor). they need to be loaded differently. e.g. [declare -lib zexy] vs [declare -path bsaylor]. in the latter case (multiple binaries in a directory) you could also instantiate objects directly with a name prefix e.g. [bsaylor/partconv~]
- older versions of Pd would omit the standard paths (e.g.
"/usr/lib/pd/extra") when searching for paths declared with [declare -path].
gfasmdf IOhannes
PS: rather than adding a "btw", why not just start a new thread, with a new subject?
Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list