Daniel Zajicek wrote:

I have downloaded PD, and have been trying to get GEM to work for most of today. I have downloaded Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc4-macosx104-powerpc.dmg from Han's site (http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html), but I continually get errors saying:

iemabs: can't load library iemmatrix: can't load library liblist: can't load library

pdp_text : severe error : could not load default font : no rendering !!! pdp_qtext : severe error : could not load default font : no rendering !!!

well, these are not errors related to installing Gem, are they? you are missing _other_ externals.

In addition, I was unable to create objects, and instead pd would create a box with a dashed line around it (is this a comment box?).

this does not say much. it would be good ti know _which_ objects you want to create: for instance i repeatedly fail to create the object [flabbergast] but [pack] works just fine :-)

So, thwarted by that, I downloaded Miller's most current version of pd 40-2, and thought I might just put GEM on there myself, but I can't figure out how to do it. This is my first time working with a program like pd, and I could used some assistance either installing GEM, or getting pd-extended to work.

If it helps, I am running OS 10.3.9, on an G4 powerbook.

there are loads of way to load a library and many of them are described in the Pd-manual (which is a good read anyhow).

basically, just drop the Gem.pd_darwin into the extra/Gem folder (you probably want to create that folder) of your installation. this can be a bit tricky on os-x, as your os would like you to stay out of certain directories (and think they are really "applications")

another solution is to put your Gem.pd_darwin wherever you like and add the path of it to pd's startup paths so it can find it when it searches for Gem.

mfg.asdr IOhannes