Thank you both for your help (especially carmen). I finally managed to get "grid" to compile.
I had m_imp.h in the correct directory, I even copied it and all the other header files to the directory with the source file just in case. That didn't help. I finally downloaded everything fresh off CVS and found a comment on the list buried somewhere that "m_imp.h" must absolutely be placed after "m_pd.h", and something about using " " vs. <> in the #include statement. It all worked out eventually.
Hopefully compiling extrenals will be easier from now on!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Grill" <t.grill@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:28:30 +0200
To: "yasmin ahmad" <yahmad@mail.com>, <pd-list@iem.at>
Subject: Re: [PD] GRID and compiling issues

  

I am able to compile the example from doc/6.externs, I can also compile
      

iemlib but when I try maxlib, zexy or flext I keep getting errors - usually
due to m_imp.h .

Hi Yasmin,
do you have the m_imp.h file on your machine at all? It is likely that (when
using PD from an installer package) you have only m_pd.h .
In this case you should get the PD source from Miller's site (
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software ), and extract the m_imp.h . Put it into
the location where m_pd.h sits... hopefully your compilation efforts are
more successful then.

best greetings,
Thomas