Dear list,

still I am having troubles in loading the externals so I suspect that either I have not understood something

fundamental or there is a bug or something needed to be done during configuring/building pd.

Just to remind you, I am using an odroid C2 board running ubuntu 16.04, and I built the last version of pd 0.47.1.

These are the trials I did.

In each trial I Inserted in the preferences the path /usr/lib/extra (where the externals are present).

For the sake of sempilicity I refer to the library cyclone and its object gate

Trial 1:

- I create the object "cyclone/gate" , without having created the object "declare".

Result: it works

Trial 2:

- I created an object "declare -stdpath cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

However, if I create the object "cyclone/gate" it still works. Notably, if I then create an object "gate" (not "cyclone/gate")

the object can be created without errors.

Trial 3:

- I created an object "declare -path cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Trial 4:

- I created an object "declare -lib cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Trial 5:

- I created an object "declare -lib /usr/lib/extra/cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Trial 6:

- In the Preferences I added the startup flag "-path cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Trial 7:

- In the Preferences I added the startup flag "-path /usr/lib/extra/cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Trial 8:

- In the Preferences I added the startup flag "-lib cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Trial 9:

- In the Preferences I added the startup flag "-lib /usr/lib/extra/cyclone"

Result: error couldn't create gate

Can anyone suggest how can I solve this problem? I would like to avoid to place cyclone in front

of every object gate, etc.

Thanks in advance

Best

Angelo

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27@hotmail.com> wrote:

I`m not a Linux user so not sure:

I want to avoid using the name of the package before each external I need to

use. So I created an object with "declare -stdpath /usr/lib/pd/extra/osc".

Isn't this [declare -stdpath osc] ?

So I tried to set the startup flags e.g. -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/osc but when I

launch pd I get "can't load library"

Sure on this, Osc is not a lib. Libs are Gem and Zexy 2.2.6svn …

try:

-path /usr/lib/pd/extra/osc

But probably with the above [declare] you got it.

Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.

From: Pd-list <pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at> on behalf of Angelo Arcadi <angelo.arcadi.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 11:01 PM
To: pd-list@lists.iem.at
Subject: [PD] External libraries not found via declare object or startup flags (pd 0.47.1, linux)

Dear list,
I get an unwanted beheaviour with the location of the externals libraries installed on pd 0.47.1. Pd was compiled from sources, on ubuntu 16.04 linux running on the odroid-c2 board (armv8-64)

I installed the externals I needed via apt-get install pd-name_package.
The package got installed in /usr/lib/pd/extra. I have added such folder in the
search path.

Now in pd I want to use some of those externals, let's say "packOSC".
At this stage If I create an object with "osc/packOSC" it works.

I want to avoid using the name of the package before each external I need to
use. So I created an object with "declare -stdpath /usr/lib/pd/extra/osc".

The problem is that pd seems to ignore that command, or the analog ones with -path and -lib.

So I tried to set the startup flags e.g. -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/osc but when I
launch pd I get "can't load library"

Any suggestion or workaround? Is there maybe a bug?

Thanks in advance

Best

Angelo