Hallo Hans+list!
As I added some more externals to the buildsystem now, I have some more
questions:
1) flatspace (externals/build/src) :
I see there are now a lot of doubled objects there (e.g. zexy, iemlib,
iemmatrix, ... is now all in the libdir format) - so I only want to ask
if I can remove these deprecated objects here ?
And a general question about the flatspace: what should go in there ?
All externals, which only exist of one object ?
And what is this externals/build/externals.pd file for (which doesn't
include all objects) ?
2) external libraries:
How do we handle this (e.g. ann, which needs the ann library) - should
we e.g. make an directory somewhere where these libraries are downloaded
(so they don't have to be in pd-cvs) and then build with the buildsystem
and linked to the externals statically ?
At least for not that big libraries it would be an option ... what do
you think or how is this handled now ?
in externals/build/README you write:
<cite>
In order to add an external that needs libraries to this build system,
create
a "libs" file with the exact same name as the source file (i.e.
oggread~.c and
oggread~.libs). If the .libs file has cross-platforms library options, it
should go into "externals/build/src". .libs files for platform-specific
library
options go in "externals/build/PLATFORM"
</cite>
but in these .libs files are only the flags for the linker ...
3) Multiple-Files externals:
again, your description in externals/build/README says this:
<cite>
In your "externals/build/src/OBJECT.c" file, #include the other files
that need to be
compiled and linked in. See how the chaos externals are included:
</cite>
I guess this was just a quick hack ... ;)
So I build now various libraries with multy-Files externals and will
update this documentation if you don't mind !
4) Aliases:
your README:
<cite>
In the "externals/build/src/OBJECT.c" file, add a function with the
alias name
with "_setup" appended to it. Then make a symlink to original external
binary
file that is named using the alias.
</cite>
How do you do that now ? Because I can't see any symlinks ATM ...
But maybe it's a better approach to make pd-wrapper patches (at least
where it is possible) ... maybe in the directory of the externals ?
E.g. in iemmatrix
- src
- help
- abs
- aliases -> and here the alias patches ?
Of course it would be optimal, if those could be auto-generated ... ;)
(Problem is, that the helpfiles won't work - in any case)
So I'm curious what you and the others think about this !
LG
Georg
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