For just about any program that compiles in a standard way [i.e. is not based on Python or some other scripting language than C or some varient of C], usually this works:

./configure make make install

if this doesn't work, first open the README or INSTALL file, whic gives you further instructions.

if you get errors when you ./configure or make, the next thing to do is open and edit the Makefile * **. The lines with # at the front are comments, and tell you important things! For PD externals, most of them will need to know the path to the PD sources [so you better download them!], some will want to know specifically where a file called "m_pd.h" [or something like that!] is located. Others which require different libraries [such as GEM, PDP, etc] will need to know the paths to these dependency libraries.

Use "find / -name foo -print", where "foo" is the name of the library you are looking for, to locate these dependencies. YOu should probably look into Fink, if you haven't already, as an easy way to install all these different libs if you need them.

good luck, d.

• Note: be careful with which app you use to edit your makefiles! Some

of them can mess up the spacing.

** Note to list: Does anybody here know offhand which is the safest OSX text editor for newbies? Is Pico alright? I'm not sure myself...

Tahiroglu Koray wrote:

hello everybody, Can somebody tell me where I can find a detailed documentation for compiling pd externals in MacOSX? I have downloaded bunch of externals for MacOSX, some of them has related .pd_darwin files, but most of them has makefile.pd-darwin only or only source .c codes. I guess they need to be compiled into .pd_darwin but how?? I am not good at doing these kind of things so I need step by step "how to compile" documentation. I have full version of developer in my computer. thank you all!!