Pd Installers

See the Downloads page for less beta releases. This page is for the test releases. The core Pd distro is available on Miller Puckette's site The final releases are on the SourceForge downloads page.

These installers are definitely very beta. I work on them whenever I have time, here and there, generally in bursts of a couple weeks every few months. All of my work in GPL'ed and in the CVS, so if you want something fixed or done, its possible to do it yourself. That is what I did with these installers, building upon the work on so many others.

I'd definitely work on this more if I could get a little money to do it. Then I wouldn't have to do other freelance jobs. No amount is too small, anything is appreciated. If I got $1 from each downloader, I would be very happy.

Pd-extended Test Releases

Lots of changes, got the first complete(-ish) build with the new extended build system. I left as much of the old functionality in place as possible, definitely were it was being used. But there are some changes that break backwards compatibility, thought they should be noticed by few, and be easy to fix going forward.

Some highlights:

• centralized patch system (packages/patches with targets patch_pd and unpatch_pd)
• libdir format: basically a libdir is a directory that has both the objects and the help files together in one folder. It can be added using -lib or the StartUp preferences, or you can access them via geiger namespaces, i.e. [mylibrary/myobject].
• special characters allow in setup function/file names for objects. This makes objects like [||~] possible without having to be in a library. Now they can be either .pd files or individual .pd_darwin files (thanks IOhannes for the patch).

Downloads

GNU/Linux

• Download: Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC5-linux-i686.tar.bz2
• compiled to install into /usr/local
• you can install elsewhere, but then you need to always start Pd in its bin dir with ./pd in order for it to find all its stuff

To install:
tar xjf Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC5-linux-i686.tar.bz2
cd Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC5-linux-i686
make install prefix=/usr/local

To uninstall:
make uninstall prefix=/usr/local

Mac OS X

• Download: Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC5.dmg
• To install, drag the Pd.app anywhere on your your hard drive.
• For newbies: to install Gem, pmpd, xsample, dyn~, and vasp support, copy the included org.puredata.pd.plist to ~/Library/Preferences (~ means your home folder). If you already have preferences saved, this would replace them.

Windows

• Download: Pd-0.38.3-extended-RC5.exe
• To install, open the installer and click thru it.
• Still based on Miller's Pd build since its a royal pain to build Pd on Windows.

Things seem to be working fine. Try things out and post to the list when things are broken. If I don't hear of any problems, I'll make this the release and stick it on the SourceForge page.

Included Libraries

These, among others, are included (some of these might not be available on all platforms):

• cyclone
• [comport]
• creb abstractions
• dyn~
• Gem
• gem2pdp/pdp2gem
• GrIPD (Windows)
• [hid] toolkit
• IEMlib
• iemmatrix
• La-kitchen abstractions
• memento
• nusmuk abstractions
• OSC
• pddp
• PDP/PiDiP/pdp2gem (Mac OS X)
• pixelTANGO (python 2.4 required)
• PMPD
• pool
• purepd
• py
• RRADical
• toxy
• vasp
• xsample

• compiled with optional Jack support (GNU/Linux & Mac OS X)

There is some stuff in the process of being added:

• more flext-based externals (nusmuk, syncgrain~)

Sponsors

Individual Donors

Thanks to those of you who have sent me donations, it definitely is appreciated.

Digital Media Research Centre, UWE, Bristol

The cross-platform development was sponsored by Digital Media Research Centre the University of the West of England, Bristol, organized by Martin Dupras

Music Acoustics Group, KTH, Stockholm

The Windows development was sponsored by the Music Acoustics Group, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm and the S2S^2 European coordinating action, organized by Anders Friberg

Previous Release

Here is the previous release: Pd-0.38.4-extendedRC4

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