Hello. I'm having some trouble trying to load zexy and iemlib into PD Vanilla 0.46-7. I had no problems compiling and installing cyclone from https://github.com/electrickery/pd-cyclone. It works fine. So I tried installing iemlib and zexy from https://github.com/iem-projects/pd-iem using their binaries but there's something wrong going on. When I turn on "verbose" under path preferences, PD seems to be looking for a file with the same name as the object I'm trying to use. Using [zexy/multiplex] in a patch gives:

tried ~/Library/Pd/zexy/multiplex.d_fat and failed
tried ~/Library/Pd/zexy/multiplex.pd_darwin and failed
tried ~/Library/Pd/zexy/multiplex/multiplex.d_fat and failed

But there's no multiplex.d_fat only zexy.d_fat. Same with iemlib, there's no dollarg.d_fat or dollarg.pd_darwin only iem_mp3.d_fat, iem_t3_lib.d_fat, iemlib1.d_fat, and iemlib2.d_fat. I'm guessing these files are where the externals were compiled in.

I tried using deken and iemlib installs the .pd_darwin files but I guess this is an older version(?) and zexy is still installing zexy.d_fat so I can't load its objects.

I also tried loading the lib "zexy/zexy" under startup preferences and it loads ok but then I get messages like:

warning: class 'abs~' overwritten; old one renamed 'abs~_aliased'

and I seem to loose namespace functionality, I can no longer refer to [zexy/multiplex] and need to use only [multiplex], which I guess is the correct behaviour.

How does PD know how to look for objects on files with different names?

Any advice?

This thread is marked as solved http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9677/having-trouble-with-deken-plugin-and-zexy-library-solved and sounds like a similar problem but I haven't been successful.

I hope my english doesn't suck.

Thanks!

There has been a discussion about the flag to include libraries on Pd's mailing list. I can't remember what the result was, but the aliased names were mentioned. Though the message you get about aliased names doesn't really create a problem. There should be a solution to that, but don't know it.
I think that including the library name in the object was an extended method, doesn't necessarily apply to vanilla. So, including zexy with a startup flag and creating [multiplex] this way should be correct, as long as the object works.
Anyway, you can look up the mailing lists's archives to find the discussion and get some more insight. I personally can't be of further help.

Cheers

Thank you. I found a discussion so I'll check that out. I'll have to take a decision here because I'd like to be consistent in my patches regarding the use of namespaces and external objects.