[PD] cannot create moonlib/absolutepath on Windows

Hello all,

I had previously released a small abstraction of a visual keyboard for Pd (see: http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/8584/keyboards-gui-for-midi/1 ), but I had tested it only on Linux. Now, I got some reports from Windows users that they can't create [moonlib/absolutepath] on their system, which I used in that abstraction. They get the following error message:

...couln't create {new line} load_object: Symbol "absolutepath_setup" not found.

We did some troubleshooting, and here is what we found:

• [import moonlib] does not make any difference
• nor does using [moonlib/absolutepath] instead of [absolutepath]
• they are able to create other moonlib externals, such as [image],

[mknob], etc.

• the last line of the source code for absolutepath says /* NOT _WIN32

*/ but the problem is present on Windows 64-bit

Has anyone else encountered this problem? And does anyone know a solution to it?

Cheers, Gilberto Agostinho