Compiling puredata externals

giuliomoro yes actually it was that + some typo!

for future records, I am uploading here the externals I build, including all build instructions. If you don't find your favourite external there, hopefully the instructions I used to build the others will help you building the ones you are interested in.

evilplaymobil but I'm not sure all the externals from l2ork are there.

No they are not there, only the ones I built manually.

evilplaymobil I'm pretty interested on the fluid~ object so I could play SF2 soundfonts on Bela.

Link to the source code for it?

[unknown] Link to the source code for it?

The source code is here:
https://github.com/pd-l2ork/pd/tree/master/externals

The object [fluid~] seems to be part of the folder:
[ pd/externals/footils/ ].

is that the most recent version? It's like 8 years old ...

giuliomoro Oooh man, so sorry!
This is the one pointed by their site:
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/tree/master/externals

Hey

Just bought a second hand Bela and look forward for it to arrive in a near future.

So now I am doing some research.

One thing I use a lot in pd is list-abs. But yeah not really externals, as they are all abstractions.

List-abs work fine for Bela, right, since it's abstractions?

Thanks!

as long as none of those abstractions use any non-vanilla objects, i guess you should be fine

never heard of that collection, looks interesting.
externals work as well, i just found it a bit more involved compiling libraries - abstractions are easier to use.
just load them into the same folder that _main.pd is in, if i recall correctly.

yes, you can put them in the project folder, or create a dummy project pd-externals and put them all there so that they are accessible from all projects without having to duplicate them.

giuliomoro

Nice, so it works pretty much like Organelle. I think I like the common folder idea the most, which I use in both Organelle and my rpi/Pisound box.

Thanks

Hey guys

I am using the phasorshot~ from TOF external library a lot in my patches on my Macbook. From this library:
https://github.com/electrickery/pd-tof

I would love to be able to use that external for Bela too. I did try to make a Vanilla version, but it just doesn't work as great as the hardcoded version from TOF library.

I was wondering if anyone compiled it already? Or is it possible to use a Linux version? I got it for Organelle.

If not, I guess I need to try compiling it myself, which I do not have a lot of experience with, to be honest, so if anyone already compiled I would be pretty grateful

Thanks in advance!

I got it for Organelle.

this one should work.

Otherwise, building it from source is straightforward. I added build instructions and a binary download here

Thanks, I think I will start with the Organelle version for simplicity and go on from there

giuliomoro Sorry for jumping on this old thread, I've been trying to get the helmholtz~ external on Bela but am having some issues with removing the -Wl option. What's the best way to access the Makefile? I'm opening it from the terminal, removing the -Wl option in my text editor, saving it, but still am getting the error.

Hi! Thanks giuliomoro for the detailed instructions about compiling externals. I have compiled and successfully used externals like zexy and cyclone in Bela. It was easy and I had no issues following the instructions.

Yesterday I compiled the Pure Data external timbreID (source is here: https://github.com/wbrent/timbreID) in a Bela Mini which some other people (@lokki ) found interesting. I followed the same instructions. Compilation and installation took a couple of minutes maximum.

However I am having a bad time: Pd does not create the objects. I thought it should be similar to zexy, but it doesnt work for me.

This is what I did and how I am testing it :

• I compiled and installed with

make PDINCLUDEDIR=/usr/local/include/libpd/
(some .h files like g_canvas.h were needed so I copied them to /usr/local/include/libpd/ from https://github.com/giuliomoro/pure-data)

make PDINCLUDEDIR=/usr/local/include/libpd/ PDLIBDIR=/root/Bela/projects/pd-externals/ install

• timbreIDLib.pd_linux is in ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreIDLib with all the other .pd objects it generates.
  (A compiled version for rPi can also be downloaded from http://williambrent.conflations.com/pd/timbreID/rpi/timbreIDLib.pd_linux)

• For testing it I created a simple patch with the object [zeroCrossing~] which can be downloaded from the following link: https://tamcloud.ufg.at/s/zgYXE9GmKctFTSi (see image attached).

These are the first three lines of this _main.pd:
#N canvas 381 151 391 472 10;
#X declare -path ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreIDLib;
#X obj 35 37 declare -path ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreIDLib
;

When I try it, I only get in the infamous "error: ... couldn't create":
- I tested it with the rPi binary: same result.

- I copied timbreIDLib.pd_linux to ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals.
- I tried with [zeroCrossing~] and [timbreIDLib/zeroCrossing~] as well as with various versions of the [declare]

Is there anything I am not considering here?
Thanks in advance!!

are you 100% sure the path is [timbreIDLib/zeroCrossing~] and not something like [timbreID/zeroCrossing~]?
just thinking out loud

in the install.txt file included with the library, there's this line:

C:/Users/Your Name/Documents/Pd/externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib

and also:
assuming timbreID is installed to the default Externals Install Directory, you can simply use the [declare] object like this:
[declare -lib timbreID/timbreIDLib]

which would imply that the lib object is created within a new timbreID folder.
so you might be directing pd to a place that simply does not exist.

maybe try [declare -lib ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib], adding this extra folder level to the search path?