While you may think it was stupid to install 64-bit now, I am very glad you did. That's how we are going to get the 64-bit builds working well, by people installing 64-bit, using it, reporting bugs, and fixing them. I think that with pd 0.41, we are very close to getting the whole pd-extended collection to be 64-bit compatible.
Very nice web page too, any interest in maintaining the info in http://puredata.info/docs/developer ? They are all MoinMoin already, so the syntax is the same. .hc On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:33 PM, John Harrison wrote: > For those of us working outside the realm of Pd vanilla, I am a big > supporter of Pd-extended because it gets us using the same versions of > the same sets of modules. This combined with its binary distributions > gets us all able to focus more on our work and less on silly > configuration issues with the tools. After pd-extended completely > saved > me on a project a few weeks ago (big time crunch --- didn't have > time to > be troubleshooting building pidip, pdp, gem2pdp, etc.) I am now a > complete convert to the concept of pd-extended binaries. > > Stupidly I set up my daily work/laptop machine up as 64 bit ubuntu > Hardy > instead of 32 bit. Pd-extended binaries only seem to be 32 bit. At > this > point, the idea of reinstalling the OS doesn't give me joy. At the > same > time I really want to join the pd-extended community --- and I feel > strongly enough about this that I am willing to reinstall my OS if > that > is what it will take. > > For now I've done my best trying to build Pd-extended on my 64 bit > machine. It seems to be working for the most part but I am sure I did > some stupid things. I made a wiki page about what I did, hoping this > might start us in the process of 1) cleaning up a nice set of docs so > others might build on 64 bit OS without wasting too much time 2) > streamlining the code so 64 bit compilation is more automatic 3) > offering 64 bit binaries. I am glad to help with any/all of these. > > Feel free to edit the wiki page and/or comment directly to me or to > the > list. I want to learn the "right" way to have done this. Besides my > documentation, I have included the resulting .deb: > http://cratel.wichita.edu/cratel/ > cratel_Pd_extended_on_bit_64_Debian-based_OS > > -John > > -- > John Harrison > http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. - Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list