Hey Scott
Compiling Gem is a pain, but you only have to do that on linux! (or if you want to run the CVS versions) but there are pre-compiled binaries for OSX and Windows.
Not that easy to find. for gem-87 only windows binaries are available. But you can get OSX binaries from chris clepper's site. As for PD the windows comes per-compiled, as well you can get an easy double-click installer from Adam Lindsay's site.
Has someone make a package of all the CVS externals compiled for windows/osx?
I think you can get both of these links from the PD webring.
Keep hacking/asking, you'll make it happen!
Ben
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Scott Hildebrand" jshildebrand@ucdavis.edu Date: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:18 pm Subject: [PD] Pd and GEM installation woes
i consider myself pretty technically able. i've only startedVC++ in windows so that's new territory for me, but i have a few years experiencein linux programming, just school stuff though (nothing very deep).
getting GEM to work in either platform has been fucking hell. irealize it's a good idea to have every extention to Pd made available separately, but if I CAN'T GET THIS SHIT TO WORK, you can sure as hell believe that casual users won't be able to. i think this is all good software but it's just too hard to set up. i believe this stuff can go really far and its user base can get bigger and bigger, but there needs to be some ease-of-installation improvements.
for windows how about having an EXE file that installs everythinglike a typical program would? i'm talking about Pd, GEM, all the extentions like GrIPD, IEMLIB, GGEE, and ZEXY. still make the individualparts available to install the old way as well... for purposes unknown and the obvious one of portability; if you want to run pd on a PDA or something and definitely don't need other useless stuff.
for macOS have a same sort of EXE and do the same stuff inlinux via the typical .compile and .configure stuff. good idea???? YES!!! do it! i would except i don't know how.
your friendly but irritated visionary,
scott
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