On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:26 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So a library like 'audiomath' would then have audiomath/
libaudiomath.pd_linux. Normally, audiomath/libaudiomath.pd_linux
would only include shared code, but for this case, it would also
include the >~ class, etc.
i guess you meant to name it either "audiomath/
libaudiomath.so" (or .dll or .dylib) or "audiomath/
audiomath.pd_linux".
Perhaps audiomath/libaudiomath.so makes the most sense so that it
can't be loaded by Pd as an objectclass. But I am guessing.
the latter is btw, similar to what zexy and/or Gem suggest
"upstream" (that is: from my side; not to be confused with any
packagers' versions):: zexy/zexy.pd_linux holds shared code (e.g.
[>~]) and signle-file-object live side-by-side to it, e.g. rad2deg.pd;
i admit that currently all C-code is considered "shared" (that is:
there is no "list2symbol.pd_linux"), but once you start blurring the
two worlds it get's blurry anyhow (and "l2s" and "list2symbol" share
about 100% of their code anyhow)
I like having each objectclass as its own file. Then only the code
that is in use will be loaded into memory. linking everything
together into one zexy.pd_linux means the whole thing is loaded into
memory, no?
having said all that, i think it is a good idea: i would like to be
able (e.g. in Pd-extended) to "load" Gem (without modifying the
path!) and it should find Gem/Gem.pd_linux and add Gem/ to it's
search paths (for abstractions and single-file externals)
i would also like to have Pd's loading mechanism modified so that it
_temporarily_ adds Gem/ to the dylib-searchpath, so one could ship a
library with external dependencies (without having to link them
statically)
I am sure you don't mean to do this on GNU/Linux, right?
I take it you mean like including a .dylib in the Gem folder? Kind of
like what I do with Pd-extended and the Fink dylibs? That is not a
great system. I think due to the limitations of the Mac OS X shared
lib loading, it would be painful. Basically, AFAIK, a .dylib in Mac
OS X must have its path hard-coded in the file. Otherwise, you have
to load it manually with a direct call to dlopen. I don't remember
the details in Windows, I think that it already checks "." for .dlls
by default.
.hc
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