Thanks for spotting this... I think if there are already installations in $(PROGRAMFILES)/pd we should stick to that. I'll go on and try to change it in Roman's script :)
M On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 12:56:34AM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Sat, 2015-12-05 at 23:17 +0100, katja wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In Makefile.pdlibbuilder I'm trying to define some standard Pd include > > paths. On Windows with MinGW this used to be (if I'm not mistaken): > > > > - $(PROGRAMFILES)/pd/src (vanilla Pd) > > Before there was an installer, Pd for Windows was available as zip > archive and as such could be installed anywhere. It might make sense to > use that as an include path, but Pd cannot safely be assumed to be > installed there. Being able to install it without admin privileges (in > other words: not to the path above) was mentioned as an advantage of the > archive (some called it the 'portable' version). > > > - $(PROGRAMFILES)/pd/include/pdextended (Pd-extended) > > Yes, the installer proposes this path. > > > Now I've installed Pd 0.46-7 with the experimental new installer from > > Miller's downloads, for which must be set: > > > > - $(PROGRAMFILES)/Pure Data/src > > > > Is this path experimental too? > > I am to blame for this. I set that as the default in the installer > script and Miller obviously didn't change it. I had the user in mind > rather than the developer. I chose it because 'Pure Data' is the > canonical name of the software. > > > Will it stay like this? > > I believe it is marked experimental exactly for the reason to be able to > address issues like this. > > > I would hope > > that at least the whitespace could be taken out of the 'Pure Data' > > component so you could define relative paths without spaces. > > I might not clearly see what you mean (relative to what?), but are > whitespaces still an issue? $(PROGRAMFILES) resolves to a path with > spaces on the majority of the Windows systems in the world anyway (often > to 'C:\Program Files\'). > > Roman > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
