external questions - Pd-list

24 Sep 2007 · *.dll *

      Hi
I'm writing my second external, an arpeggiator called "arp". I know I 
was encouraged to write it as an abstraction, but the exact features 
that I wanted seemed too overwhelming for a pd-newbie.
Anyways, I have two questions:

Whenever I instantiate it in pd I get "consistency check failed:

class_addmethod: arp_bang: bad argument types" in the pd console. 
However the external seems to work just fine. If someone clever could 
look at the code an spot the mistake, I'd be most happy! Basically I 
have four float-inlets where the first should also accept "bang"-messages.

With the recent thread on name space in mind, is there anything I

should do to make it more name-space-safe? Of course I could prepend it 
with something like my name, but that would be so ugly :-)
NB: I'll make a proper announcement/release when it's finished and 
supplied with a -help.pd file.
-- 
peace, love & harmony
Atte

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# Makefile
# (c) 2006 IOhannes m zmölnig

# path to pd
## change this according to your setup!
#PDROOT=/home/atte/software/pd/current/

# here we find the sources of pd (and evtl. the pd.lib)
PDSRCDIR=$(PDROOT)/src
PDLIBDIR=$(PDROOT)/bin

# this is the filename-extension
# people have to specify it at the cmdline: eg "make pd_linux"
EXTENSION=$(MAKECMDGOALS)

# if no filename-extension is supplied by the user
# try to guess one, based on what "uname" tells us
UNAME := $(shell uname -s)
ifeq ($(UNAME),Linux)
  DEFAULTEXTENSION= pd_linux
else
  ifeq ($(UNAME),Darwin)
    DEFAULTEXTENSION= pd_darwin
  else
    ifeq (MINGW,$(findstring MINGW,$(UNAME)))
      DEFAULTEXTENSION= pd_nt
    else
      ifeq ($(UNAME),IRIX)
    UNAMEV := $(shell uname -R)
    ifeq (6.,$(findstring 6.,$(UNAMEV)))
      DEFAULTEXTENSION= pd_irix6
    else
      DEFAULTEXTENSION= pd_irix5
    endif
      else
    DEFAULTEXTENSION=help
      endif
    endif
  endif
endif

# if no extension is given, call "make" again with a guessed extension
auto:
    make $(DEFAULTEXTENSION)

# just a stupid fallback
help: 
    @echo "choose one command:  make pd_linux (linux), make pd_darwin (osX), make pd_irix5 (IRIX5), make pd_irix6 (IRIX6), make dll (MSVC), make pd_nt (MinWG)"

# delete old build files
clean:
    -rm -f *.dll *.pd_* *.o *.obj *~

# we want to compile all C-files we find in the current directory
SOURCES=$(sort $(filter %.c, $(wildcard *.c)))
# each C-files maps will become an external with the given filename-extension
TARGETS=$(SOURCES:.c=.$(EXTENSION))

# ----------------------- Linux -----------------------

pd_linux: $(TARGETS)

LINUXCFLAGS = -DPD -O2 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer 

    -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror 

    -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch

LINUXLDFLAGS =  -export_dynamic -shared  -lc -lm

LINUXINCLUDE =  -I$(PDSRCDIR)

%.pd_linux: %.c
    $(CC) $(LINUXLDFLAGS) $(LINUXCFLAGS) $(LINUXINCLUDE) -o $*.pd_linux $*.c
    strip --strip-unneeded $*.pd_linux

# ----------------------- Mac OSX -----------------------

pd_darwin: $(TARGETS)

DARWINCFLAGS = -DPD -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes 

    -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch

DARWININCLUDE = -I$(PDSRCDIR)

DARWINLDFLAGS = -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace

%.pd_darwin: %.c
    $(CC) $(DARWINCFLAGS) $(DARWININCLUDE) $(DARWINLDFLAGS) -o $*.pd_darwin $*.c

# ----------------------- IRIX 5.x -----------------------
pd_irix5: $(TARGETS)

SGICFLAGS5 = -o32 -DPD -DSGI -O2

SGIINCLUDE =  -I$(PDSRCDIR)

SGILDFLAGS =  -elf -shared -rdata_shared

%.pd_irix5: %.c
    $(CC) $(SGICFLAGS5) $(SGIINCLUDE) -o $*.o -c $*.c
    $(LD) $(SGILDFLAGS) -o $*.pd_irix5 $*.o
    rm $*.o

# ----------------------- IRIX 6.x -----------------------
pd_irix6: $(TARGETS)

SGICFLAGS6 = -DPD -DSGI -n32 

    -OPT:roundoff=3 -OPT:IEEE_arithmetic=3 -OPT:cray_ivdep=true 

    -Ofast=ip32

%.pd_irix6: %.c
    $(CC) $(SGICFLAGS6) $(SGIINCLUDE) -o $*.o -c $*.c
    $(LD) $(SGILDFLAGS) -o $*.pd_irix6 $*.o
    rm $*.o

# ----------------------- NT -----------------------
dll: $(TARGETS)

PDNTCFLAGS = /W3 /WX /DPD /DNT /D__WIN32__ /DMSW /nologo

VC="C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio\Vc98"

PDNTINCLUDE = /I. /I$(PDROOT)\tcl\include /I$(PDSRCDIR)\src /I$(VC)\include

PDNTLDIR = $(VC)\lib

PDNTLIB = $(PDNTLDIR)\libc.lib 

    $(PDNTLDIR)\oldnames.lib 

    $(PDNTLDIR)\kernel32.lib 

    $(PDLIBDIR)\pd.lib 

%.dll: %.c
    cl $(PDNTCFLAGS) $(PDNTINCLUDE) /c $*.c
    link /dll /export:$*_setup $*.obj $(PDNTLIB)

pd_nt: $(TARGETS)

MINGWCFLAGS = -DPD -O2 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer 

    -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror 

    -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch -mms-bitfields

MINGWLDFLAGS =  -export_dynamic -shared -lm -lkernel32 -lcoldname -lcrtdll -lpd -L$(PDLIBDIR)

MINGWINCLUDE =  -I$(PDSRCDIR)

%.pd_nt: %.c
    $(CC) $(MINGWLDFLAGS) $(MINGWCFLAGS) $(MINGWINCLUDE) -o $*.dll $*.c