Installation/Compilation instructions for "iemmatrix" ===================================================== 1) linux (and other autoconf-systems): ====================================== "cd" into iemmatrix/src/ run "./configure" (see "./configure --help" for valid options) run "make" run "make install" enjoy. this should install iemmatrix into /usr/local/lib/pd (unless you specify otherwise) the dynamic-lib (iemmatrix.pd_linux) is installed into extra/ the configure-script tries to detect whether you are running a pd>=0.37; if so, the help-patches are installed into extra/iemmatrix; if you are running an old version of pd, the help-files will be installed into doc/5.reference/iemmatrix 2) mac OS-X: ============ there is nothing special in the code, so it should compile out of the box: "cd" to iemmatrix/src run "./configure; make" (for further details please see "1) linux") 3) irix: ======== i don't have any irix machine at hand, so i don't know whether it works but again, since iemmatrix does not use anything special, it should work out of the box try using configure in iemmatrix/src (for further details please see "1) linux") 4) W32: ======= with MinGW installed, you probably might be able to use the configure in iemmatrix/src users have reported that they were able to build it (with problems) http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-05/028266.html i will support a makefile for msvc as soon as i boot into windows again CrossCompilation for w32 with MinGW (http://www.mingw.org) on linux-systems you need a cross-compilation tool-chain for windows (there is a debian-package mingw32) run "./configure" and specify the path to your windows installation of pd the simplest way is to give the PDPATH via the "--with-pd=PDPATH" flag; you have to make sure that the pd-sources are in PDPATH/src and the compiled pd-binaries in PDPATH/bin if those are scattered across you filesystem you can alternatively give explicitely the paths to your "m_pd.h" (with --includedir) and to your "pd.lib" (with --libdir) don't forget to override the default extension ("pd_linux" on linux-systems) with the more appropriate "dll". on bash this looks like: % ./configure --with-extension=dll --host=i586-mingw32msvc --with-pd=/path/to/w32-pd/ --disable-PIC now run "make" and enjoy. 5) FreeBSD et al: ================= i don't know, but why shouldn't it run there ? try the configure in iemmatrix/src and report any success or failure