Hi all!
I programmed some pd externals with flext on Windows. Now I want to port these externals to MacOSX.

My problem is:
On windows I link the static library pd.lib to my project file.

I tried to find a precompiled static library for MacOSX (I think it should be named like libpd.a ... ) but did't find one. I also tried to build pd from source code, but the build failed.

Does anyone know a place where I can download or get this library from?

Best, hr824

Hi hr824,

I'm not sure about using a static library but when I've done externals all I've had to include is m_pd.h from the Pd source.

Hope that helps

Hi Jwif,
thanks for your answer.

To check your hint, I excluded the static pd.lib from a project, that worked before and got linker errors ("unresolved external symbol").

I need the puredata library for my project to work, because flext uses symbols from it.

hr824

Sorry, I've got no idea about flext. Good luck!

Meanwhile, I successfully built my externals on MacOSX with flext, too. I got help from Thomas Grill at the flext mailing-list. Here is what he wrote:

"[...] linking to libraries or executables works differently on Mac and Windows.
On Windows, you need a .lib which contains the symbols actually present in the Pd external. On a Mac this works differently with a symbol lookup at dynamic link time.
Under Windows you'll always need the pd.lib to compile externals for Pd. [...]"

So I need the pd.lib for my externals on the Windows platform, and on MacOSX I do not need a static pure data library.

hr824

Could you elaborate on 'symbol lookup at dynamic link time'?

Thank you!

http://kb.iu.edu/data/akqn.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.prftungd/doc/prftungd/when_dyn_linking_static_linking.htm