For those of us working outside the realm of Pd vanilla, I am a big supporter of Pd-extended because it gets us using the same versions of the same sets of modules. This combined with its binary distributions gets us all able to focus more on our work and less on silly configuration issues with the tools. After pd-extended completely saved me on a project a few weeks ago (big time crunch --- didn't have time to be troubleshooting building pidip, pdp, gem2pdp, etc.) I am now a complete convert to the concept of pd-extended binaries.
Stupidly I set up my daily work/laptop machine up as 64 bit ubuntu Hardy instead of 32 bit. Pd-extended binaries only seem to be 32 bit. At this point, the idea of reinstalling the OS doesn't give me joy. At the same time I really want to join the pd-extended community --- and I feel strongly enough about this that I am willing to reinstall my OS if that is what it will take.
For now I've done my best trying to build Pd-extended on my 64 bit machine. It seems to be working for the most part but I am sure I did some stupid things. I made a wiki page about what I did, hoping this might start us in the process of 1) cleaning up a nice set of docs so others might build on 64 bit OS without wasting too much time 2) streamlining the code so 64 bit compilation is more automatic 3) offering 64 bit binaries. I am glad to help with any/all of these.
Feel free to edit the wiki page and/or comment directly to me or to the list. I want to learn the "right" way to have done this. Besides my documentation, I have included the resulting .deb: http://cratel.wichita.edu/cratel/cratel_Pd_extended_on_bit_64_Debian-based_O...
-John
While you may think it was stupid to install 64-bit now, I am very
glad you did. That's how we are going to get the 64-bit builds
working well, by people installing 64-bit, using it, reporting bugs,
and fixing them. I think that with pd 0.41, we are very close to
getting the whole pd-extended collection to be 64-bit compatible.
Very nice web page too, any interest in maintaining the info in
http://puredata.info/docs/developer ? They are all MoinMoin already,
so the syntax is the same.
.hc
On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:33 PM, John Harrison wrote:
For those of us working outside the realm of Pd vanilla, I am a big supporter of Pd-extended because it gets us using the same versions of the same sets of modules. This combined with its binary distributions gets us all able to focus more on our work and less on silly configuration issues with the tools. After pd-extended completely
saved me on a project a few weeks ago (big time crunch --- didn't have
time to be troubleshooting building pidip, pdp, gem2pdp, etc.) I am now a complete convert to the concept of pd-extended binaries.Stupidly I set up my daily work/laptop machine up as 64 bit ubuntu
Hardy instead of 32 bit. Pd-extended binaries only seem to be 32 bit. At
this point, the idea of reinstalling the OS doesn't give me joy. At the
same time I really want to join the pd-extended community --- and I feel strongly enough about this that I am willing to reinstall my OS if
that is what it will take.For now I've done my best trying to build Pd-extended on my 64 bit machine. It seems to be working for the most part but I am sure I did some stupid things. I made a wiki page about what I did, hoping this might start us in the process of 1) cleaning up a nice set of docs so others might build on 64 bit OS without wasting too much time 2) streamlining the code so 64 bit compilation is more automatic 3) offering 64 bit binaries. I am glad to help with any/all of these.
Feel free to edit the wiki page and/or comment directly to me or to
the list. I want to learn the "right" way to have done this. Besides my documentation, I have included the resulting .deb: http://cratel.wichita.edu/cratel/ cratel_Pd_extended_on_bit_64_Debian-based_OS-John
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 06:03:39PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
While you may think it was stupid to install 64-bit now, I am very
glad you did. That's how we are going to get the 64-bit builds
working well, by people installing 64-bit, using it, reporting bugs,
and fixing them. I think that with pd 0.41, we are very close to
getting the whole pd-extended collection to be 64-bit compatible.
Yes! This is very important. I have been in the same situation. While it sucks to deal with now, it is an important step in the evolution of the software to be able to compile on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and I am glad to help out.
Erik
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