I'm going to see if I can package Gem for Arch.
That would be cool! I just gave it a shot:
Me too. I was able to compile Gem 0.94_pre1 without much hassle (./autogen; configure; make), even already wrote a preliminary PKGBUILD (attached). Alas, something is apparently wrong with the build: When I start Pd with Gem (pd -path /usr/lib/pd/Extra/ -lib Gem), I get the error message:
/usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/Gem.pd_linux: /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol: _Z25dispatchGemWindowMessagesR10WindowInfo
... and cannot create any Gem objects.
There are two old gem PKGBUILDS archived from AUR3. I'm not sure how useful they are: https://github.com/aur-archive/pd-gem/blob/master/PKGBUILD https://github.com/aur-archive/pd-gem-git/blob/master/PKGBUILD
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