But if you don't want to compile lua, you can also use the [popen] object that comes with pd extended (at least on osx).Hallo, Rob Canning hat gesagt: // Rob Canning wrote:anyone got solutions to these issues? or anyone with the skills agree that [shell] should be fixed or rewritten and included in another lib?I'd recommend to use pdlua instead of shell. You get a nicer language and can use it for many other tasks, too.