thanks IOhannes, verbose mode helped us realise that the file wasn't being found.
we found the culprit. i had shared the file via facebook chat, and it had clipped the tilde off the file name. seems to be working now! cheers Matt On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:57 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-02-10 10:24, i go bananas wrote: > > i just made my first proper external, and was so super chuffed that i got > > it working. > > > > i'm on osx, so using .pd_darwin extension. > > > > i put it in my extra folder, made a demo patch in pd, and it works fine. > > > > only problem is, when i shared the .pd_darwin with 2 friends, it didn't > > work for either of them. (i checked they had put it in the extra folder) > > > > does anyone have an idea what might be wrong? > > how about: > > tell them to Pd in verbose-mode ("-verbose"), and see whether the > external can be found (and if it can't be found, this will give you a > clue where Pd searches for the libraries). > > if it can be found, try to find out whether the dylib loader throws an > error (e.g. on the stderr/stdout; so you might need to start Pd from the > cmdline). > > do you use the same Pd version? > Pd's API is very stable, but every now and then a new function is added. > if you use such a new function in your code, then you cannot use the > external with a version of Pd that predates the introduction of said > function). > > do you (dynamically) link against non-standard libraries? > are they present (and in a searched-for location) on your friends machine? > > fgmasdr > IOhannes > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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