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=pod

README for example pd external package 'hello'

Last updated for hello v0.01

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The 'hello' package is an example external package intended
to demonstrate one way of using GNU autotools (automake, autoconf, autoheader)
to manage a Pd external distribution.

See L</"HOWTO"> for a developer-oriented introduction.


=head1 INSTALLATION

Issue the following commands to the shell:

   cd PACKAGE-XX.YY  (or wherever you extracted the distribution)
   ./configure
   make
   make install

=head1 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

The 'configure' script supports the following options, among others:

=over 4

=item * --help

Output a brief usage summary of the 'configure' script,
including a list of supported options and influential
environment variables.

=item * --enable-debug , --disable-debug

Whether to enable verbose debugging messages.
Default=no.

=item * --with-pd-dir=PD_DIR

Set base Pd directory.  Default PREFIX/pd

=item * --with-pd-include=PD_INC

Where to look for m_pd.h

=item * --with-pd-extdir=PD_EXTERNS

Where to install compiled externals.  Default: PD_DIR/externs

=item * --enable-object-externals , --disable-object-externals

Whether to build single-object externals or only multilibs (default),
for packages which support both.

=back


=head1 HOWTO

This section provides a brief developer-oriented description of
how to use GNU autotools to manage your own Pd external package.

=head2 Files

=over 4

=item $(top_srcdir)/common

The directory common/ includes common code for the autotools packages.
Copy it to your top-level package directory.

=item $(top_srcdir)/common/m4

Contains m4 macros for autotools.
See L</"ax_pd_external.m4"> for details.

=item $(top_srcdir)/common/pdexternal.am

May be included in your package's Makefile.am.
See L</"pdexternal.am"> for details.

=item $(top_srcdir)/common/mooPdUtils.h (optional)

The file mooPdUtils.h may be included by your C source files.
Currently, this only provides a PDEXT_UNUSED macro to avoid annoying
gcc warnings under -W.

=back


=head2 Running aclocal

You must pass the "-I common/m4" flag to aclocal when you call it.
For maintainer-mode rebuilding and autoreconf, you should add
the following to your top-level Makefile.am:

 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I $(top_srcdir)/common/m4

See the example package's autogen.sh for a useful wrapper script.


=head2 configure.ac

You must call the macro AX_PD_EXTERNAL from configure.ac.
Before doing so (and before calling AC_PROG_CC), make sure
that you cache the values of important user flags in shell
variables:

 ##-- save user's CFLAGS,CPPFLAGS
 UCPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
 UCFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
 ULDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"

 ##-- Pd external stuff
 AX_PD_EXTERNAL

See the example package's configure.ac for a complete working example.


=head2 Makefile.am

You probably want to include $(top_srcdir)/common/pdexternal.am in
your Makefile.am(s).  This will allow you to build Pd externals
as "_PROGRAMS" targets.  In particular, pdext_PROGRAMS targets
will be built as externals and installed in PDEXT_DIR (see above).

See the example package's Makefile.am for a complete working example.

=over 4

=item Externals

To build & install the external "hello.$(PDEXT)", add the
following to Makefile.am:

 pdexterns_PROGRAMS = hello
 hello_SOURCES = hello.c mooPdUtils.h

=item Abstractions

To install the abstraction "heynow.pd", add the
following to Makefile.am:

 pdexterns_DATA = heynow.pd

=item Documentation

To install the documentation patch "hello-help.pd", add the
following to Makefile.am:

 pddoc_DATA = hello-help.pd

=back

=cut

=pod

=head2 ax_pd_external.m4

The AX_PD_EXTERNAL macro defined in common/m4/ax_pd_external.m4
is intended to perform all common autoconf-level
checks and substitutions necessary for building Pd external packages on
various systems.  Among other things, this includes:

=over 4

=item *

Providing --with-FEATURE and --enable-FEATURE arguments such as
--with-pd-dir (see L</"CONFIGURATION OPTIONS">, above).

=item *

Defining automake-style "Xdir" variables for easy definition
of package externals, abstractions, and documentation.

=item *

Checking for the required header "m_pd.h".

=item *

Defining platform-dependent compiler and linker flags for
building Pd externals, and adding these to the relevant
system variables (CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc.)

=back

See the comments at the top of m4/ax_pd_external.m4 for
more details on the AX_PD_EXTERNAL macro.


=head2 pdexternal.am

pdexternal.am is intended to be included in your package's Makefile.am.
It redefines the automake EXEEXT to allow building Pd externals using
automake's _PROGRAMS targets.  Additionally, it defines the
automake varibles PDEXT, SUFFIXES, EXTRA_DIST, CLEANFILES, DISTCLEANFILES,
and MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.


=head2 Multilibs and Single-Object Externals

You can use automake's EXTRA_PROGRAMS variable, together
with the pdexterns_PROGRAMS automake target, the automake conditional
WANT_OBJECT_EXTERNALS, and the C preprocessor macro WANT_OBJECT_EXTERNALS
to allow building single-object-externals or multilibs from a single
source distribution.

Makefile.am should contain something like:

 ##-- always build these externals
 pdexterns_PROGRAMS = hello

 ##-- potential single-object externals (as _PROGRAMS)
 EXTRA_PROGRAMS = goodbye

 ##-- build single-object externals?
 if WANT_OBJECT_EXTERNALS
  pdexterns_PROGRAMS += goodbye
 endif

If single-object externals were requested by the user,
then the C preprocessor macro WANT_OBJECT_EXTERNALS will be defined
by autoheader, to allow you to
conditionally #include<> the EXTRA_PROGRAMS sources in your
top-level multilib source file if desired.  In the above example,
hello.c might contain:

 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
 # include "config.h"
 #endif

 #ifndef WANT_OBJECT_EXTERNALS
 /*-- Multilib build: include source for the goodbye external --*/
 # include "goodbye.c"
 #endif

 /*... local definitions etc. go here ...*/

 void hello_setup(void)
 {
  #ifndef WANT_OBJECT_EXTERNALS
   goodbye_setup();
  #endif

  /*... local setup code goes here ...*/
 }

=cut

=pod

=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PD by Miller Puckette and others.

=head1 AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish E<lt>moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.deE<gt>