thank you Christoph! as i am still running into the same basic error as before, it looks like my configuration is still the problem. can i ask a some questions? please forgive my inexperience - just trying to get my head around the complexities of building...

1. did you download the repo as a zip? if so, what path did you put the uncompressed folder in? i put mine under the msys64/home/(user name) directory
2. did you type anything besides 'make' to compile the external? any flags or overrides?
3. 32 bit or 64 bit build? i'm doing 64 bit.
4. did it create a bunch of .o object files and then compile the dll?

i'm considering removing msys2 and just starting the whole thing over from scratch. i installed msys2 earlier and parts of the mingw64 toolchain, but not everything. then i found out about the right toolchain, removed a lot of the content from the mingw64/bin folder and other folders and then used pacman to install the proper toolchain. but with so many tools there's a possibility i ended up with a somewhat broken or misconfigured build setup. it would definitely also be helpful to know whether you did a 32 bit build, as i've been concentrating completely on 64 bit.

thanks in advance,

best,
scott




On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 6:46 AM Christof Ressi <christof.ressi@gmx.at> wrote:
There is a subtle error in the Makefile, I just made a fix: https://github.com/jnonis/pd-plaits/pull/4. After that, I could compile it successfully with Msys2 in a MinGW64 Shell.

Christof



Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juli 2019 um 11:07 Uhr
Von: "Scott R. Looney" <scottrlooney@gmail.com>
An: pd-list <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Betreff: Re: [PD] - need some assistance compiling an external for Windows

  

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 1:46 AM IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at[mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at]> wrote:On 7/12/19 9:15 AM, Scott R. Looney wrote:
> any tips on where to copy the folder so that the path is clearly given? i'm
> not 100% sure but i'm reasonably certain all my errors so far are path
> related.

i think this is all wrong.
you don't have to copy anything anywhere.
you shouldn't even think about doing that (where did you get the idea from?)

i *think* that you are just running "make" in the wrong directory.
you should run it in the "pd-plaits-master" directory (which contains
files like "plts~.cpp")¹
 
i am absolutely running make in the correct directory. i installed the whole msys2/mingw64 toolchain, i opened the shell for mingw64, and navigated to my copy of the repo, which i downloaded as a zip, uncompressed and moved into what i believed to be a convenient location under the msys64/home/(username) directory
once you have installed the proper toolchain (make, compiler,...) the
*only* thing you might have to adjust is the location of your
Pd-installation
 
Pd 64 bit is installed in its usual spot. nothing unusual there.
~~~
1. download pd-plaits and unzip it
2. open the MinGW32-shell (for building a 32bit external) resp the
MinGW64-shell (for building a 64bit external)
3. change into the pd-plaits directory
    $ cd pd-plaits-master
4. run make
    $ make
~~~

this will create a "plts~.dll" for you (the name's the same for both
32bit and 64bit externals; if you want both, you should rename the 64bit
external to "plts~.m_amd64")
 
yup i have done all of this (the 64 Bit route) and i'm still not getting anywhere. i understand i am a newbie to compiling but i really have tried to follow all the directions correctly. all i can guess is that somehow it's not looking for files in the active directory. the fact that Lucas couldn't compile it either is i think significant and speaks towards a non-standard compiling configuration on the repo. there's an Xcode project file so perhaps he tried pd-lib-builder and then gave up and switched to Xcode to compile it. i will say i ran all of this on my Mac using mingw64/gcc and 'make all' with the Makefile.pdlibbuilder  and it created a whole mess of object (.o) files but also created the .pd_darwin file correctly.
 
i think i'll take Lucas's advice and compile something that should work smoothly in order to verify that the method i've been following is sound.
 
best,
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