Re: Help compiling pureVST

Success! I created a ~/pd/ directory and created the symbolic link as 
you said and it works! Now, what do these twenty sliders do?

On 6/2/25 16:59, Miller Puckette via Pd-list wrote:
> So I guess the tcl files are in /usr/local/puredata/tcl/ ?  In this 
> case, you could just make a symbolic link to
> your home directory:
>
> ln -s /usr/local/puredata ~/pd
>
> (this will clutter your home directory; I need to make 
> /usr/local/puredata be one of the places pureVST
> searches by default.  I also just learned that on Debian pd seems to 
> live in /usr/lib/puredata and not
> /usr/lib/pd as I had assumed.
>
> Alternatively, you could just go change "/usr/lib/pd" to 
> /usr/local/puredata in the pureVST source and
> remake - but I imagine it's sompler for now to just make the symbolic 
> link.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
>
> On 6/2/25 3:51 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
>>
>> On 6/1/25 11:53, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>> It sounds like pureVST is loading (hence the sliders and the 20 
>>> channels) but that it isn't finding its way to the
>>> GUI, which it borrows from an installed Pd application.  The plug-in 
>>> searches in ~/pd and in /usr/lib/pd (which I
>>> think is the normal place that the automake stuff puts it) - or more 
>>> specifically, it needs to find TCL files as
>>> ~/pd/tcl/pd-gui.tcl (etc) or as /usr/lib/pd/tcl/pd-gui.tcl etc. Next 
>>> on my own dolist is to search for derivative filenames
>>> such as "pd-0.55-2" etc.
>> I've built Pd from source so all these files are in /usr/local/ on my 
>> computer. Is there to force PureVST to look there? I also built the 
>> new source I downloaded where I built libpd prior to building Pd, but 
>> still no luck.
>
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