Re: Is Pof outdated?

So, if I have OF-0.12.1 this should be added, right? should I try to 
compile Pof myself then?

On 12/16/25 12:36, Antoine Rousseau wrote:
> EDIT: apparently OF has added fPIC to the compile flags, see: 
> https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks/pull/8262
> I didn't check yet though.
>
> Antoine
>
>
>
> Le mar. 16 déc. 2025 à 11:30, Antoine Rousseau <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>
>     Pof is difficult to maintain, especially on Linux, since it
>     dynamically links to many different libs; each distribution comes
>     with a different revision number for each lib.
>     So it's virtually impossible to compile Pof in a way that it's
>     compatible for every distribution.
>     My current workaround is to include most of the libs in Pof
>     distribution, in the pof/libs directory.
>     Unfortunately FLAC is not included in those included libs, so Pof
>     tries to link with system libraries, but there's no more
>     libFLAC.so.8 in your system version.
>     You can try to copy this lib from an older Linux distribution, try
>     the one attached here (it's actually a renamed libFLAC.so.8.3.0).
>     But it's possible other missing libs will appear then...
>
>     The real solution would be to compile Pof for each distribution.
>     But other problems arise there : openFrameworks is not yet ready
>     for that. In particular, all dependency libs must be recompiled
>     with the -fPIC flag, to allow building a dynamic library. I do it
>     manually each time I want to update OF... and it's a PITA. I still
>     have to ask OF to add fPIC to every lib compilation flag.
>
>     I really hope I can find the availability to continue maintaining
>     Pof in the future.
>
>     Antoine
>
>
>     Le mar. 16 déc. 2025 à 08:56, Alexandros Drymonitis
>     <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>         Since Pof came up in the thread below, I tried to use it and
>         I'm getting the following error:
>
>         ```
>         /home/alex/Documents/Pd/externals/pof/pof.pd_linux:libFLAC.so.8:
>         cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>         ```
>
>         I do have libflac14 on my system (Debian 13) and there's no
>         libflac8 in my system's repositories (apt-cache search
>         libflac8 returned no results). How can this be resolved? Or is
>         Pof abandoned?
>
>

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