While studying the text and code of the 'HOWTO write an External for puredata' found at http://iem.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/HOWTO-externals-en.html, I made some help patches, comments in the code and variations on the externals. It is probably most useful as an addition to the original text at iem.

As I thought it might be of interest to others, there are also executables (Linux, MacOSX, Windows) for those currently without a development environment.

The original page is here: http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/digaud/puredata/ExternalsHowto/

(it seems I can attach only one attachement, and it is limited in size, so this contains only the basic examples.)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/basicExternalExamples.tgz

I wish I can see how its done in eclipse

@ShawnPD said:

I wish I can see how its done in eclipse

Personally I prefer NetBeans for C/C++ projects. If the project has a proper Makefile, it uses it to determine what files are relevant. It has of course syntax highlighting, but it also uses the compiler to signal syntax errors and typos in your code (misspelled variables etc.).

BTW, here is the second half of the additions. (As you can attach only one file, and of limited size, I counldn't attach it to the initial post

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/extraExternalExamples.tgz