<![CDATA[networking in libpd (and adding C external to libPD)]]>Hello guys,
I'm considering creating an audio networking prototype application in PD on Android.
I already have networking externals I written in C a few years ago (not unlike netsend~ and netreceive~), but I'm new with libpd. The networking externals employ POSIX sockets.
So questions are:

  • are the sockets ok under Android? Being a Linux system I believe they will work compiling with the NDK, but I fear they will interfere with all the Android networking layer (which I don't know and anyway I don't think I can call from plain C code).
  • how do I embed my external in libpd? Since libpd is basically the vanilla Pd I guess somehow I'll have to let it know that there are other externals binaries somewhere...

Thank you guys

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9863/networking-in-libpd-and-adding-c-external-to-libpdRSS for NodeSun, 12 Jul 2026 15:09:45 GMTFri, 26 Feb 2016 11:23:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to networking in libpd (and adding C external to libPD) on Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:23:28 GMT]]>Hello guys,
I'm considering creating an audio networking prototype application in PD on Android.
I already have networking externals I written in C a few years ago (not unlike netsend~ and netreceive~), but I'm new with libpd. The networking externals employ POSIX sockets.
So questions are:

  • are the sockets ok under Android? Being a Linux system I believe they will work compiling with the NDK, but I fear they will interfere with all the Android networking layer (which I don't know and anyway I don't think I can call from plain C code).
  • how do I embed my external in libpd? Since libpd is basically the vanilla Pd I guess somehow I'll have to let it know that there are other externals binaries somewhere...

Thank you guys

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9863/networking-in-libpd-and-adding-c-external-to-libpdhttp://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9863/networking-in-libpd-and-adding-c-external-to-libpdFri, 26 Feb 2016 11:23:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to networking in libpd (and adding C external to libPD) on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:24:42 GMT]]>@leonardo I can only answer the second question: You need to compile the external (adding the .c in the makefile of libpd) and then call the setup method of the external just after the libpd_init function.

Cheers~

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