I get the same, and I don't yet understand why it doesn't show,
although a midifile-help.pd file is there.

https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/externals/mrpeach/midifile/midifile.c

Apparantly, this has been fixed in Purr Data, btw.

Christof

Hi Jakob

I'm not IOhannes, but I'll answer anyway.

On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 22:22 +0200, Jakob Laue wrote:

 But when I add a "-lib mrpeach" in the
command line preferences, I always get "mrpeach: can't load library" 

Yes, because the mrpeach library doesn't contain a binary named
mrpeach. In case of mrpeach, it is sufficient to just add the path.
Preferably, you add the path with [declare -path mrpeach] in your
patch, rather than in the Pd configuration. This makes your patch more
portable.

on startup. But I can still create objects from it. I mean, I can use
the objects, but I don't get an overall init-message on startup,
which makes me think that someting is not set correctly.

You don't see a message, because no external is loaded at start up
(only the path is added). This is unlike the zexy library, which comes
with a zexy binary and which prints something to the console when
loaded. However, from what I understand, if a specific external prints
a message at load time is purely optional. So that is not necessarily
an indicator.

 Also, pd seems not to be able to find the help files for mrpeach-
objects. Right-clicking [midifile] and selecting "help" gives "sorry,
couldn't find help patch for "midifile-help.pd"" in the console.

Do you have an idea what I could try to do? 

I get the same, and I don't yet understand why it doesn't show,
although a midifile-help.pd file is there.

Roman

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