Installation

I invite you to use PdExtended rather than the vanilla version of Pure Data. For the compilation it won’t have any impact (as it uses the same library pdlib.h) but at least you’ll have all the integrated other libraries on which some abstractions are relying on.

Important note

At the moment the current makefile does not work properly and will be corrected really soon.

Compilation of the external

Linux

In order to compile and install this library you will need:

  • gcc >= 4.7.1
  • gnu-make >= 3.82
  • Pure Data >= 0.45

To compile the library:

make make install

All file will be added to you default Pure Data external folder ~/pdextended.

Windows

In order to compile under windows, you will need:

  • Mingw
  • Pure Data >= 0.45

To compile the library:

mingw32-make mingw32-make install

All files will be install for the current user in %%application_data%%

MacOs

The Makefile does’nt take into account MacOs compilation at the moment.

Installation of abstraction License ——-

Please refer to the LICENSE file at the root of the project.

Contributing

We’re really happy to accept contributions from the community, that’s the main reason why we open-sourced it! There are many ways to contribute, even if you’re not a technical person.

We’re using the infamous simplified Github workflow to accept modifications (even internally), basically you’ll have to:

  • create an issue related to the problem you want to fix (good for traceability and cross-reference)
  • fork the repository
  • create a branch (optionally with the reference to the issue in the name)
  • hack hack hack
  • commit incrementally with readable and detailed commit messages
  • submit a pull-request against the master branch of this repository

We’ll take care of tagging your issue with the appropriated labels and answer within a week (hopefully less!) to the problem you encounter.

If you’re not familiar with open-source workflows or our set of technologies, do not hesitate to ask for help! We can mentor you or propose good first bugs (as labeled in our issues). Also welcome to add your name to Credits section of this document.

Submitting bugs

You can report issues the issue tracker of the project, that would be a really useful contribution given that we lack some user testing on the project. Please document as much as possible the steps to reproduce your problem (even better with screenshots).