the zexy external general:: the zexy external is a collection of externals for miller.s.puckette's realtime-computermusic-environment called "puredata" (or abbreviated "pd") this zexy external will be of no use, if you don't have a running version of pd on your system. check out for http://pd.iem.at to learn more about pd and how to get it note: the zexy external is published under the Gnu General Public License that is included (GnuGPL.txt). some parts of the code are taken directly from the pd source-code, they, of course, fall under the license pd is published under. installation:: linux : change to directory source run: "./configure" "make clean" "make" "make install" this will install the zexy external into /usr/local/lib/pd/externs (the path can be changed either via the "--prefix"-flag to "configure" or by editing the makefile alternatively you can try "make everything" note: if you don't want the parallel-port object [lpt] (e.g.: because you don't have a parallel-port) you can disable it with "--disable-lpt" win32 : extract the zexy-0_x.zip to your pd-path (this file should be located at /pd/zexy/) execute the "z_install.bat", this should copy all necessary files to the correct places to compile: w/ MSVC makefile.nt or zexy.dsw, or with GCC configure your pd path, eg: ./configure --prefix=/c/program/pd; make; make install irix : though i have physical access to both SGI's O2s and indys, i haven't tried to compile the zexy externals there for years. the configure-script should work here too; if not, try "make -f makefile.irix" Good luck ! macOS-X: the configure-script should work here too; if not, try "make -f makefile.darwin" making pd run with the zexy external:: make sure, that pd will be looking at this location (add "-path /pd/externs" either to your .pdrc or each time you execute pd) make sure, that you somehow load the zexy external (either add "-lib zexy" (if you advised pd somehow to look at the correct place) or "-lib /zexy" to your startup-script (.pdrc or whatever) or load it via the object "zexy" at runtime authors:: this software is copyleft by iohannes m zmoelnig with some contributions by winfried ritsch, guenter geiger, miller.s.puckette and maybe some others