OK, it seems that GF is a powerfull tool. But why there is no basic tutorial for beginner to install it ?

Because :

1 : Install Ruby. Make sure it contains ruby.h and intern.h and related files. It's also recommended to have libruby.so. Those extra files may be in a package called ruby-dev if you are using RPM or DEB/FINK. If you are building Ruby yourself, it's better to configure ruby with --enable-shared, else you won't have libruby.so (but you will still have libruby.a). If you need to have two Rubies at once, for example Ruby 1.8 for running Rails and Ruby 1.9 for running GridFlow, you may build Ruby 1.9 with the option --program-suffix=19 which will help distinguish the two Rubies. It's also possible to have two Rubies installed without that option, but it might be complicated. If you install into a system directory, you may have to run ldconfig after installing Ruby.
2 : Download GridFlow from the website and uncompress it, or get it from the CVS server.
3 : Run ./configure from the gridflow directory. Make sure it detects all the components you want to use with GridFlow. If your OS is Debian or Ubuntu you would run ruby1.9 configure instead so that it doesn't use ruby 1.8. In MacOS you would normally use FINK to install those extra components: libjpeg libjpeg-shlibs libpng-shlibs libpng3 libpng3-shlibs libmpeg libmpeg-shlibs
4 : Note: you may have to set CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH to indicate where to find *.h files, and you may have to set both LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to indicate where to find *.so or *.aor *.dylib or *.bundle or *.dll or *.lib files.
5 : Note: you can do ./configure --help to get a list of supported options. You can use them to ignore the presence of troublesome libraries and select debugging level. With --use-compiler you should use a version of g++, not directly a version of gcc, else you get undefined symbol problems. Some versions of gcc/g++ are troublesome.
6 : Run make to produce the executables gridflow.so and gridflow.pd_linux or similar
7 : With a text editor, create ~/.gridflow_startup and write something like GridFlow.data_path << "/pd/extra/gridflow/images" to tell GridFlow where to find additional folders containing images or movies you want to use with GridFlow.
8 : Ltilib (optional, linux only): The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision.

1 : Download and install ltilib version 1.9.15 from http://ltilib.sourceforge.net/
2 : in optional/rblti do: make

9 : Loading GridFlow:

1 : PureData : With a text editor, modify or create ~/.pdrc and write -lib gridflow.
2 : ImpureData : In the ".pdrc editor", add gridflow to the list of libraries.
3 : plain Ruby : the command require "gridflow" will load gridflow.so.

Note that on MacOS the dot-files are invisible in the Finder but you do cd ~/Desktop; ln -s ../.pdrc "PureData Configuration" to make an alias on the Desktop. Note also that on Windows the dot-files are even more trouble.

1) Where to DL Ruby and how to install it (macosx) ?

2) OK

3) With Macosx, how to use Fink (what we do with it ?) what can we do with Fink to configure GF ?

4) Set CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH : where is it and what is it ? Where to find *.h files : where is it ans what is it ? And you may have to set both LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH : where is it and what is it ? To indicate where to find *.so or *.aor *.dylib or *.bundle or *.dll or *.lib files : idem ?

5) It's like chinese langage for me.

6) OK

7) And we save it on the desktop ?

8) For linux only (equivalent for OSX ?)

9) OK

Note) On MacOS the dot-files are invisible in the Finder : are you sure ?

I think a clear documentation is good for people like me. Then we could install GF without problem. This would multiply the chances to have GF by 10 ? ;).

Why GF is not include with pd-extended ?

Thanx for your answer.

Jack

Le 8 déc. 07 à 21:30, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote:

i wouldn't say that gridflow is only for expert people, but yes, there is a lot to learn, when learning gridflow. and learning it is very interesting. i don't have an academical/mathematical background and for me gridflow is one of these tools, that help me understand theories, that i wouldn't have a chance to understand whithout seeing them implemented and working. this applies also very much to pd, i think. would you consider pd to be a tool only for dsp experts and academic musicians?

Exactly. GridFlow is designed like Pd is, while GEM and PDP both try to hide much more about video and other data types, than what Pd ever hides. (One hides less, by allowing lots of data converters and data operations in a way that you can access the data the way you want, instead of having to rely solely on readymades)

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