is there an equivalent of the oscbonjour max/msp external for pure-data? i found a port of the same for pure-data, but the libraries it utilizes are outdated and when i attempted to update the source i didn't get very far. i was able to get the object to compile, but when i tried to create the oscbonjour object the pd console spit out:

/home/mfoster/Desktop/bonjourosc/oscbonjour.pd_linux: /home/mfoster/Desktop/bonjourosc/oscbonjour.pd_linux: undefined symbol: _ZN8ZeroConf10NetService18resolveWithTimeoutEdb

so i'm assuming there's some type mismatches going on in the source that i messed with.

original outdated source: http://svn.puredata.info/svnroot/pure-data/trunk/externals/postlude/oscbonjour/

worth it to just port it myself y'all think?

Update for those who are interested... Also on the cycling'74 forums, the author of oscbonjour has this to say about the current osc-tools:

hi guys,

The original code for oscbonjour is available from sourceforge here:
http://osctools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/osctools/tags/osctools-08-08-2009/

Since then I've refactored it, to be a more general purpose zeroconf toolkit. There is now 3 externals zeroconf.browse, zeroconf.resolve and zeroconf.register. You can browse/register iTunes services, local Ftp, etc... not just _osc._udp. It's also more Max5 friendly with attributes

the code is available there:
http://osctools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/osctools/trunk/

sorry only XCode projects will compile at the moment.

this is a great clarification and really offers a lot of sense as to the current state of the osc-tools package (read: why the libraries clearly weren't behaving like the outdated code implied). while i'm not running macintosh (gentoo linux), i had a look at some of the source of the updated externals and it all looks pretty portable to puredata! so i'm going to give it a try tonight and see if i can figure out a way to bring zeroconf support to puredata in the next couple of days. i would very much like to implement the avahi zerconf api over apple's bonjour implementation... but i feel like there aren't a whole heck of a lot of potential linux pd/osc/avahi users and even fewer macintosh users using avahi. why this is okay is that there's a dns compatibility layer for avahi that allows apple's and avahi's api to play nicely together.

the lack of documentation for these tools is totally irritating me. i'm calling it a night, but before i do i found this:
http://www.le-son666.com/software/pdj/
java plugin for pure-data. planning to use this and a combination of osc java libs (which i'm already way familiar with) as well as the java bonjour libraries. might take a bit longer as a result of writing this all from scratch, but c'est la vie! i'm frustrated enough i'm not even bother to give those libraries their proper names.

I've been fiddling around with the JmDNS libraries and have finally been able to get a simple java app going that lists new mDNS services of type _osc._udp(.local). Before I was able to, however, for some reason the libraries weren't working under Linux. It just so turns out that when creating a new JmDNS object on a Macintosh system, the real IP address of the localhost is registered, but on a Linux system it registers as "0.0.0.0". Don't ask me why this is, but I won't be complaining as the software is now playing very nicely together.

EDIT: And the PDJ plugin works absolutely perfect. HARD props to Pascal Gauthier for putting this all together. It's really, really great!

Development moving very quickly! "zeroconfosc" now monitors OSC services registered with Bonjour and retrieves a list of available OSC services.

So the object, now named "mDNSbonjour", is pretty much ready to go. I just have to document it. Adjusted a few things so that it's not OSC-centric at all. Basically you connect to a host bonjour server via ip/localhost, set service type such as _osc._udp and then send it a | browse (. It'll spit out a list of service names of it's right inlet and then you send it one of those service names preceded by a "resolve". Lastly it spits out an integer port number out of its left inlet. I'll get this ready to go asap!

Hello,
I ran through this old post and hoped to find the mDNSbonjour external somewhere on the web but I couldn't. Has the project ever been completed? It looked like murray managed to nearly complete it...

Just found out it was renamed simplebonjour.
Here: http://github.com/murr/simplebonjour

I don't understand how to get this working it seems really over my head, would anyone mind explaining how to get this working in a patch? Do I need to do some compiling?

Thanks

yup, edit the first entries in the makefile to the correct directories for your system, like where the executable is. then try typing "make" from the command line in the directory you downloaded it into and see what happens. fix any errors, then follow this tutorial: http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-8112-install-externals-libraries-gui-plug-ins-etc

Thanks sebfumaster, do I need to be on Linux to do this? Can I do it on Mac?

it'll work, sometimes it's necessary to mod it a bit but it should work for any platform mentioned in the makefile.
oh, and I forgot that you need to have GNU make, an easy way to do this on OSX is get Xcode's command line tools