Thanks for clarifications IOhannes! 
I would really prefer to not declare anything with specific path references like this one with the Gem-0.93.3 folder. I understand it will induce problems if shared and if drives/sticks changes places, OS´s. The reason the versioned folder got there was due to the suggestion from Oliver to unzip all Gem.zip into the "extra" folder, which I did and got it there. I also tried to set path preferences  (from menu - File-Preference-Path, also File-Preference-Startup, but it seems that neither of them are remembered after restart of Pd. 

Will try to rename the versioned folder to just Gem.... instead of Gem-0.93.9  so to get rid of the dependecies. I hope it will work like that.

Guess I was happy that Gem finally started to work on this machine I am at, so didn´t see the fatalities of the versioned folder. (why is it anyway included in the zip-file if it causes this instabilties?)

All the best!
Björn Eriksson

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:25 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
On 2016-08-04 03:23, Björn Eriksson wrote:
> In the patch I do have to [declare -lib /Gem-0.93.3/Gem] or with direct
> path where Gem is installed, on my external harddrive that is [declare -lib
> G:/pd/extra/Gem-0.93.3/Gem].

well, that sounds like a bad layout.
the point of using [declare] is to create patches with dependency
information that is platform independent and sharable.

for instance it makes little sense to use [declare -lib
D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem]: while it might work, the patch will
break as soon as you give it away (or port it to another computer, that
is not running windows ANDOR has a cd-drive occupying the "D:" letter
rather than yoiur USB-stick ANDOR has a different filesystem layout
ANDOR ...

sp, if you put your externals into extra/, then you shouldn't use
version-prefixes.
if you do want to organise the directories the way you like, use the
preferences to add additional paths.

e.g. extracting Gem to D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem\ you could add
"D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\" to your search-paths (in the
Pd-preferences) and then use [declare -lib Gem] in your patch.
then, if you want to migrate the patch to another machine, install Gem
to /home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool/Gem/ and add
"/home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool" to your Pd-preferences.
then run your patch.
without any modifications!


fgasdmr
IOhannes


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