Thanks everybody.
Looking forward to the new random addition in stdfaust.lb

On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 11:33, Stéphane Letz <l...@grame.fr> wrote:

>
> >
> > The foreign function approach works well, but only for compiling to c
> > targets; I believe that when compiling to llvm, foreign functions are
> > not available. (Perhaps someone could correct me if I'm wrong.) This
> > includes faustlive, and perhaps the faust IDE (does this use llvm? I
> > know it doesn't compile to c….)
>
> Yes foreign functions are limited to C/C++ backends since they have to be
> compiled separately (with a C/C++ compiler), and linked to the final binary.
>
> They are not available in FaustLive (which used the LLVM backend) and
> Faust Web IDE (which uses the WebAssembly backend)
>
> > Finally, it's not really my place to propose this, but adding a new
> > primitive that gives random values would solve this problem. It would
> > be cool to have a way to get random values on all platforms, and it
> > seems like it wouldn't be unreasonably complex to add. But again, this
> > is a question for the developers of faust and isn't really my
> > business.
>
> Adding a new random generator primitive is something we have in mind, but
> not done yet.
>
> Stéphane
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